No software in the world can stop blasphemous content: Chairman PTA

[Geek]

The decision about whether or not to unban YouTube will be taken by the govt, he said.


ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Ismail Shah stated on Friday that it is up to the government to decide whether or not to unban YouTube adding that there’s no software in the world that can filter offensive content.
Speaking exclusively to Dunya News, Chairman PTA also said that 3G spectrum auctions will take place in next two to three months and arrangements for 4G license are also in process.



Answering a question, chairman PTA said that there’s no ability to issue sim cards with bio data in Afghanistan and that it is not PTA’s job to stop illegal foreign sim cards. He further said that the government should make the arrangements to stop illegal foreign sim cards at an international level.



Ismail Shah said that the decision to open YouTube will be taken by the government as PTA is bound to obey the government’s orders adding that there’s no software in the world that can permanently filter blasphemous and objectionable content.



It is pertinent mentioning here that YouTube has been banned on domain level in Pakistan since September 2012 when it was blocked over the anti-Islam movie uploaded by an American user. The protest against YouTube had turned violent in many Muslim countries directly attacking the US, following which, the US government had distanced itself by saying that the US has nothing to do with that video.
Reports of localized version of YouTube under an agreement with Google also surfaced in the recent months however no development on that is reported.


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[RAJPUT1]

Well some of pakistani software companies should take the challenge and accept it and develop something

If some thing can not be done it does not mean it should not be done

 

[yahya.khan]

Everything is possible.
In fact its very much possible

Recently EU (europe) courts have ordered GOOGLE to remove Max Mosley's pictures....?
you can read details by goggling it

 

[awan4ever]

Theres no way to automatically filter all blasphemous content. The only way is to keep a look out and ban such content as and when it gets reported. This is how all countries monitor network traffic. Banning Youtube completely is no solution.

 

[Sedqal]

Finally a sane voice - he is right that no software can block blasphemous content. Almost every social website is being run through user provided data, any loser with an internet connection can make an offensive statement about Muslims (or any other group for that matter) and put it on websites like youtube, twitter, facebook or thousand other sites like them.

Rather then looking for softwares to block Pakistani govt should engage Google and other companies and come-up with some system where Pakistan can inform these companies of objectionable material and get it blocked from the source. It would be better to get other Muslim countries in a loop in this regard.

 

[NohmnAli]

internet is a whole other world, you are not just looking at your computer screen but you are seeing a whole different world. You are connected to the whole world and its a pretty big world, you can not stop a guy sitting in Africa or England from posting some blasphemous stuff , even if you take it down, it will re-appear again. All you can do is to report this kind of stuff and make contracts with Google so that such stuff which is blasphemous can be removed from YouTube.

 

[hunter123]

Well some of pakistani software companies should take the challenge and accept it and develop something

If some thing can not be done it does not mean it should not be done

O bhai! how many different ways can you say bad things about someone if you want to?

No software can stop it because software is deterministic and human mind is not. Therefore the rules with which a human mind can detect insult/praise are impossible to determine (and thus encode in software) unless you develop a computer that can think like a human mind (not even brain.... "mind").

Ham apni harkatain theek karain ge tau dunya hamare rasool ki izzat kare gi. There are no shortcuts.