Sure, Draw Something. Just Not The Prophet
Pictures of the Prophet Mohammad have always been a highly contentious issue
? they’re not explicitly prohibited in the Qu’ran but many Sunni Muslims forbid the idea,
while others do not seem to mind as much. Among the latter group
are those who feel that banning such images is a restriction on freedom of expression.
The issue at the center of the Pakistan-blocks-Twitter story today
has been reported to be around a viral activist campaign that’s been running
for the past few years to point attention to this.
But as with the actual blocking of Twitter itself in Pakistan
? there has been no official Pakistani government statement about what is actually behind
the current Twitter block at the moment (here is a screenshot of an alleged email ordering
the block to ISPs with no specific reason behind it) ? it’s hard to pin down exactly
what content was actually sent around that caused the block in the first place.
And at least one group is raising the question of whether this blockage could
be related to the government testing an image filtering service
? something with wider-ranging implications.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/20/sure-draw-something-just-not-the-prophet/