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Blocking adult websites 2

Except for one article in the Daily Times, there has hardly been any reaction to the government ordering the blocking of adult websites. It is as if the people accept no one really cares or concerned.  The most probable reason is that the people that this has become and on again off again thing.  Facebook and You Tube have been banned then re-opened. 
The people of Pakistan it seems consider their government to be clownish and insane.  Taking it seriously is an absolute waste of time. It is only a matter of time when all the rules will be reversed because it is technologically  impossible to stop things such as these. A few years ago a complete ban on Indian TV shows had started. Quickly people found their favourite alternative - the CD and the DVD.  Some wag said  Zardari wanted to favour some video shop owner who rents out CDs and DVDs and Internet adult website were not letting him do so. When that video shop owner has enough customers, the adult websites would be restored.
All this is for show - it is simply a temporary shut down. Considering how corrupt the government is, it will restore the adult websites - if it is paid enough to do so. Nothing is being done on any specific principles. There is no 'moral compass' guiding the government. 
During General Musharraf's  Facebook was banned on the outcry of  blasphemy. The people behind this were the dairy farmers who were affected by the dairy products being imported from Holland.  It had nothing to do with Islam. General Musharraf  took the bait, shut down Facebook and stopped importing dairy products from Holland. The result was milk prices became 4 times what they originally were. They government was trapped and there was no going back. 
No one minded when Facebook was restored no one really cares what it is in it, because the dairy farmers got what they really wanted - charge any amount of money for milk.Strangely enough though - Pakistan produces more milk than it can consume. If that were taken into account - milk prices would crash. Deliberate shortage is being created as in everything else.
What the real reason for blocking adult websites is will be known soon. Those websites will be reopened without much fanfare. Still using these methods are criminal and should be stopped.

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