Pakistan is reportedly blocking Wikipedia
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#68GQW)
It's currently unclear what the government wants removed from the site. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia has been blocked in Pakistan over sacrilegious" content on the site, according to a report from Bloomberg. The ban comes after the government ordered the site to remove offending content within 48 hours, and the country's telecom authority degraded" its services.
It's not currently clear what Wikipedia is being asked to remove, though Bloomberg reports that it's still in talks with Pakistani officials. Wikimedia, the foundation in charge of Wikipedia, didn't immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment on the matter. According to research from the OpenNet Initiative, the country blocks sites that have content it considers to be blasphemous, anti-Islamic, or threatening to internal security."
Given the intentional...