Facebook Banned In Pakistan until May 31, 2010
Pakistan court has ordered the government to ban Facebook - world's most popular social network in entire Pakistan until May 31, 2010. There is a competition beginning on May 20th, on Facebook to draw prophet Mohammad which has drawn lot of negative press/media coverage in Pakistan.Azhar Siddique, a representative of the Islamic Lawyers Forum has said that the court thinks that the competition is blasphemous and ordered the court to immediately ban Facebook. "The court has also ordered the foreign ministry to investigate why such a competition is being held."What do you think about this decision? Do you think social networking platforms are being misused these days? What should be the way to prevent platform abuse?
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