Oct 20: LHC Justice Says Only Dictators Ban Facebook

A Lahore High Court Lawyer Yasser Latif narrated the comments of Justice Azmat Saeed on twitter. See his tweets and some of others below.

Justice Azmat Saeed : #FACEBOOK WILL NOT BE BANNED!!! Only Dictators ban Communication. Hosni Mubarik is no where now! #victory—
Yasser Latif Hamdani (@theRealYLH) October 20, 2011

This is a quite a positive statement from an institution, which has been misjudging Facebook lately. Thanks to the Justice Azmat, lawyer Yasser Latif and other people who made this happen at LHC.

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Assholes Are Everywhere; French Ban Word ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ on TV and Radio

You don’t need to come and visit Pakistan to experience a time to time censorship on social networking sites, now this facility is available in many other countries. The newly added is France.

Broadcasting anchors and TV/Radio hosts are forbidden to use the word Twitter and Facebook unless it is seriously important or directly related to the news.

Question: Who is Against Freedom of Speech in Pakistan? #DontBan

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#DontBan Citizen Journalism, Freedom-of-Speech, and Facebook in Pakistan

It’s amazing to find good number of people here who cares freedom-of-speech, citizen journalism, and right of access to information. We got an amazing response in our first 18 hours. Here are some of the stats of our online cause.

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35 mentions on Twitter.
68 people Liked our posts.