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  Problem is you don’t don’t want a country to hold a garage sale who has nukes
context: 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. [...] 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.”
  
  I'd like to remind everyone that this country has nuclear weapons. >
  
  Perfect example for the importance of stopping nuclear proliferation. >
  
  Perfect example for the importance of stopping fanatical religious proliferation. >
  
  ¿Por què no los dos? >
  
  I mean you wouldn't want an informed citizenry would you? >
  
  Not terribly surprising of a country where blasphemy is a capital offense in cases where the accused aren't simply assassinated first. >
  
  This has nothing do with Blasphemy. 
  That term has become weaponized disinformation tactic, by the Pakistani military to continue their fascist control tactics.
  This is very likely the military trying to control and manipulate information and may be a test case for further internet blockages in social media platforms.
  The last year has proved to them how dangerous social media and information is to their authority. It has exposed so much of their corruption, blackmailing, and intimidation tactics that they have lost a massive amount of their popularity.
  So what is there brilliant solution when they can no longer kidnap people in the middle of the night, beat, assault, blackmail or threaten them? What can they do after assassination attempts fail and the resentment of the people only grows?
  I believe you're seeing it here. More authoritarianism. 
  If you ask people in Pakistan who exactly is protesting against Wikipedia... no clue. 
  If you ask them who sits on every single regulatory board in the country...ex-military officers. >
  
  Maybe IMF should let Pakistan flounder for its fiscal management and corruption.  With its past history of not fixing the financial mess it is highly unlikely Pakistan will pay back money already loaned.  That is why Saudi Arabia refused to help Pakistan anymore.