Pakistan: The Government Tender To Purchase Filtering Tools

Posted 25 February 2012 22:01 GMT

Written byRezwan

Countries	Pakistan
Topics	Freedom of Speech, Governance, Technology & Internet
Languages	English

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· Pakistan : Appel d'offres du gouvernement pour des outils de filtrage du Net

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Apparently the Pakistani government has invited tender to private and semi-private companies to purchase a tool to block thousands of urls. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia hosts a video podcast at SpeakForChange to discuss why the government is doing this.

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