The Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority has issued a list of 1,700 words it considers “offensive and obscene,” and has demanded that mobile providers begin filtering them from text messages as of Monday.
The demand letter said the order was legal under a 1996 law preventing people from sending information through the telecommunications system that is ‘false, fabricated, indecent or obscene’.
It also stated that free speech could be restricted ‘in the interest of the glory of Islam’, which explains why ‘Jesus Christ’ is on the banned list.
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