ISLAMABAD: The web is abuzz over the ban on social networking site Facebook in Pakistan following the Prophet cartoon row. While some favour a clamp
down, others say: "Why should everyone get punished for 1 or 2 person's mistake
Webpages have sprung up on Facebook after "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" was set up.
A Pakistani court had Wednesday ordered the government to temporarily block Facebook after a controversy over a competition for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
Pakistan has also blocked the video-sharing website YouTube because of its "growing sacrilegious contents".
A statement from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that YouTube and Facebook websites were blocked after the government failed to convince them to remove "derogatory material".
A webpage called "Ban FACEBOOK in Pakistan" has been set up "to condemn the hypocrisy of FACEBOOK. As it won't delete the hate mongering page called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!".
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