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Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban; Bangladesh Cracks Down

As Pakistan lifted a two-week long ban on Facebook Monday, Bangladesh began blocking the site.

Both bans followed the creation of a Facebook group promoting “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” an event that encourages participants to submit artistic representations of the prophet Mohammed — something many Muslims consider to be idolatry — as an exercise in free speech.

Relief after concerns of Twitter censorship

The conflict on Monday morning between the Israeli Defence Force and a pro-Palestinian, Turkish flotilla not only left substantial questions upon this Turkish group and the Israeli military, but also a question looming over Twitter. At approximately 11am GMT on Monday, the highly trending hashtag #flotilla suddenly dropped off the list of trending topics, and […]

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