Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/1811204/Pakistan-To-Scour-Google-Yahoo-For-Blasphemy?art_pos=24

"Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims, an official said Friday. The moves follow Pakistan's temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow. ... 'If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website,' [said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran]."

 I'm glad that we are past this stuff in western nations.