{"id":1085,"date":"2012-02-28T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/28\/this-isnt-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:47","slug":"this-isnt-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/28\/this-isnt-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn&#8217;t a Hoax: Pakistan Requests Proposals for a National Filtering and Blocking System | Electronic Frontier Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1321540215\/this-isn-t-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for-a-national-filtering-and-blocking-system-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1321540215\/this-isn-t-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for-a-national-filtering-and-blocking-system-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/ItEvqzy-wHYeySODgeBHRTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>This week, the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development, deployment and operation of a \u201cNational Level URL Filtering and Blocking System,\u201d calling on institutions to submit by March 2nd a feasible proposal that would allow the government to institute a large-scale filtering system.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/02\/not-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-national-filtering-and-blocking-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via eff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThis week, the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development, deployment and operation of a \u201cNational Level URL Filtering and Blocking System,\u201d calling on institutions to submit by March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/28\/this-isnt-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1656,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/31\/internet-researchers-decry-dns-filtering\/","url_meta":{"origin":1085,"position":0},"title":"\u00bb Internet Researchers Decry DNS Filtering Legislation","author":"aslam","date":"May 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe researchers are taking shot at a measure in the Protect IP Act allowing the Justice Department to obtain court orders requiring American internet service providers to stop rendering the DNS for an infringing website under the .com, .org and .net domains.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1302,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/10\/india-kapil-sibal-vs-the-netizens-on-filtering\/","url_meta":{"origin":1085,"position":1},"title":"India: Kapil Sibal vs. The Netizens On Filtering Social Media \u00b7 Global Voices","author":"aslam","date":"December 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Earlier this week, the Indian Union Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal asked internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo to pre-screen derogatory, defamatory and inflammatory content about political leaders and religion. \u00a0Via globalvoicesonline.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":775,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/12\/09\/wcit-12-leak-shows-russia-china-others-seek-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":1085,"position":2},"title":"WCIT-12 leak shows Russia, China, others seek to define &#8216;government-controlled Internet&#8217;","author":"aslam","date":"December 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesLeaked proposals from the U.N. 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