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Article

2 Mar 2012

Author:
Eric Pfanner, New York Times

Pakistan Builds Web Wall Out in the Open

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Many countries censor the Internet, but few spell out their intentions as explicitly as Pakistan. The government published a public tender last month for the “development, deployment and operation of a national-level URL filtering and blocking System.”...Ms. Saleem [of the NGO Bolo Bhi] wrote to the chief executives of eight international companies that make Net filtering technology, asking them to make a public commitment not to apply for the Pakistani grant. On Friday, one of them, Websense, which is based in San Diego, responded, declaring in a statement on its Web site that it would not seek the contract...