{"id":50861,"date":"2014-05-23T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T10:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=50861"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T10:24:48","slug":"twitter-blocks-blasphemous-tweets-in-pakistan-50861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/twitter-blocks-blasphemous-tweets-in-pakistan-50861\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter blocks blasphemous tweets in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50862\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50862  \" alt=\"Twitter banned blasphemous tweets.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Twitter-Pakistan-Nationalturk-23-600x360.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Twitter-Pakistan-Nationalturk-23-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Twitter-Pakistan-Nationalturk-23-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Twitter-Pakistan-Nationalturk-23.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter banned blasphemous tweets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a significant development,\u00a0 micro blogging website Twitter blocked some blasphemous tweets in Pakistan on the request of country\u2019s officials.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, May 23\/Nationalturk \u2013 The micro blogging website Twitter has blocked some blasphemous tweets in Pakistan on the request of country\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has honoured five requests by officials of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block tweets that were regarded as blasphemous,\u201d said a news report published in influential US newspaper, The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>It said the requests were made in the May by \u00a0PTA\u2019s Abdul Batin, who had asked Twitter to censor accounts, tweets or searches on the social network that he described as blasphemous or unethical.<\/p>\n<h2>Twitter honoured all five requests<\/h2>\n<p>The newspaper said Twitter honoured all the requests which called for the blocking of content from drawings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), photographs of burning copies of the Holy Quran and messages from a handful of anti-Islam bloggers as well as an American porn star who now attends Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>It said the\u00a0 blocking of these tweets in Pakistan is in line with Twitter\u2019s country-specific censorship policy that it made public in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said\u00a0 it was the first time that the social networking site had agreed to block content.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2012, Twitter was briefly blocked in Pakistan over blasphemous posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities, cricketers, cabinet ministers and members of parliament use Twitter in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter blocks blasphemous tweets in Pakistan In a significant development,  micro blogging website Twitter blocked some blasphemous tweets in 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