Pakistan Dials Its Islamic Net Censorship Up to 11, Shutters Yahoo and Bing

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Pakistan's just made a move that's not going to qualify it for any "friendly world citizen" awards: Its government's said it'll be filtering scores more Web sites for anti-Islamic content. Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia were just the start.

The Ministry of Information Technology gave the order today to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to begin monitoring and filtering many more Web sites suspected of playing host to anti-Islamic or merely blasphemous content. On the list: Google...