Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks Pakistan’s years-long whack-a-mole attempts to prevent its citizens seeing some content online gone up a level, after the nation’s prime minister intervened to overturn a fresh ban on Wikipedia. As The Register has recently reported, Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority (PTA) last week downgraded access to the crowdsourced …
This has literally nothing to do with religion. Its the military establishment throwing a tantrum about negative publicity and corruption claims. Its incredible how western media ran amok at IKs government for using the wrong pronouns, but the moment the corrupt generals and dynasties came back into power it was complete radio silence, with the odd misplaced outrage about religion.
You sure did misread the part where I did not attack you but the media in general. Im closely following Pakistani politics and believe me that nobody in the country is fooled by these antics by the military establishment who have been censoring journalists all year. They are on the back foot right now and this is clearly a distraction.
Although I find it hilarious how users on here get butthurt about not being able reinforce their own misconceptions. This is the only time western media will focus on the struggles of Pakistanis battling the corrupt dynasties and military generals who have the nation under their boots, but the media still insist on controlling the narrative in this manner where they can shit on the nation and give the corrupt actors a free pass. Its mind boggling, but I guess it gets the clicks.
Quite apart from one persons heresy being another persons cornerstone, as was pointed out there are myriad means of getting around this. Banning <whatever> off a freely accessible and therefore wide open to abuse medium would be like banning certain foods from your local supermarket. You’d just go somewhere else. Far better to educate kids to think and reason for themselves. That way whenever some scammers cold call and offer you a new iPhone you can see it for what it is.
It's a theocracy where the elite remain in power because the people are taught from an early age to obey without question a literal interpretation of a holy book written about 1400 years ago. The last thing they want to do is "educate kids to think and reason for themselves". That is precisely why they are trying to censor the internet.
Excerpt: "[Pakistan] has ignored the simple expedient of making or seeking edits to Wikipedia pages it dislikes."
How fast would those edits be undone by other Wikipedians, particularly those considered "heathens"? Probably fast enough to make the Prophet spin in the proverbial grave! (A blasphemous concept since -- as far as I know -- Islam teaches he was taken direct by Allah.)
Pakistan knows full well it wouldn't work out in their favor. Any edits sought would not be made; any edits actually made would be labeled as biased/one-sided and promptly reversed.
(Anon due to being a non-Muslim heathen, obviously.)
Yes.... you can try to edit an article, but there are SUPER EDITORS that review these edits
These editors are drawn from an elite WOKE cabal. They will undo your edit if it does not fit their WOKE narrative.
There is no effective way to appeal. I found this out by trying to correct a factual error on a WIKIpedia page. A wikipediitor overruled the edit.
The fact that you use "woke" as a perjorative might lead readers to infer that any edit that you made to Wikipedia was probably unhelpful or did not conform to the style guidelines. But as you have not posted the identity of (or a link to) the article concerned, the inaccuracy that you tried to correct, or the response of the "woke editor" who reverted your edit, we are in the dark, so please enlighten us.
For the sake of clarity, the Cambridge English dictionary defines "woke" as "aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality". I, for one, certainly hope that people making edits to Wikipedia are woke, in the true meaning of that word.
As for the claim of "no way to apeal [sic]", every Wikipedia article has an associated Talk page, which is dedicated to "discussing improvements to the article". Did you try posting your reasons for wanting to make the edit there so that they could be discussed?
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