By Yasser Latif Hamdani
Newspapers reported that the IT
Minister, Ms. Anusha Rahman, is working with experts to create software to
block all objectionable material which would then allow the YouTube ban to be
lifted. After 11 months, this is where we are at and we still have it all
wrong.
I am the petitioner’s counsel in Bytes
for all v. Federation of Pakistan etc before the Lahore High Court where
the petitioner argues for unfettered net freedom and an unqualified end to
censorship, filtering and regulation on the internet. As petitioner’s counsel I
would like to re-state for the people the case we have made before the
Honourable High Court in simple English language. It has been necessitated by a
malicious defamatory campaign that has been undertaken by certain quarters
within the power pro-censorship lobby in our government.
