Pakistan Bans 'monkey crotch' 'Wutang' and Other Obscene Words

After rumours of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) imposing
a ban on porn sites in the country, a new PTA letter floating online
orders the imposition of a “system” to ban select words in mobile SMS
messages.

A set of two extensive lists in English and Urdu have allegedly been
compiled by the PTA. The list of English words crosses the 1,000 figure,
while the Urdu list contains over 550 words.

A scan of the letter (dated November 14, 2011) sent from Muhammad Talib
Doger, Director General (Services) PTA, states that the filtering of
content through SMS must be considered under the scope of “Protection
from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication
Regulations, 2009″ and the SOPs laid down to control spamming. The
letter is written with reference to a meeting held with mobile phone
operators on October 18, 2011 in Islamabad.

PTA has ordered the implementation of the system within seven days of
the issuance of the said letter. All operators have been asked to submit
a monthly report to PTA regarding the number of blocked text messages.

“Spamming” has been defined as:

The transmission of harmful, fraudulent, misleading, illegal or
unsolicited messages in bulk to any person without express permission of
the recipient, or causing any electronic system to show any such
message or is being involved in falsified online user account
registration or falsified domain name registration for commercial
purpose.

The letter states that under the “provisions and dictum” by the higher
courts, the “fundamental rights of privacy and freedom of speech and
expressions guaranteed under the constitution are not unrestricted and
are subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by law”.

Clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 31 of the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act, 1996 states that:

Whoever “unauthorisedly transmits through a telecommunication system or
telecommunication service any intelligence which he knows or has reason
to be false, fabricated, indecent or obscene” is an offence under the
Act.

Content filtering may be done through “through automated machine
process(s)/function(s)” without reading or disclosing “content of
intelligence” by a human being in order to protect consumers under
provisions of the Act.

A spokesman for the PTA, meanwhile, told The Guardian newspaper that the
move was in response to complaints from customers who said they were
receiving offensive text messages.

"Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl," Mohammad Younis said.

Pakistanis have been reacting to the news on twitter, sometimes wondering what the words and expressions mean.



Under license condition No.7.8 of the cellular mobile license:

The Licensee shall take all reasonable steps to track, locate and
prevent the source of harassing, unsolicited, offensive, fraudulent or
unlawful communication.

Director PR for PTA, Mohammad Younis, while speaking to The Express
Tribune, said that he was not aware of any such letter being sent out,
adding that many letters are sent out to operators every day, and not
all of them go through the PR office.

Speaking on whether the PTA had taken a decision on SMS filtering in the
past, Younis said that the authority does not take such decisions and
only passes on the instructions to licensees once a decision is taken by
a ministerial committee.

While much of the list contains expletives, a number of words to be
banned include medical terms, terms used by particular minority groups,
common words from the English language and rap group, WuTang Clan.

Among the more bizarre are "monkey crotch," "wuutang" and "Jesus Christ."

Medical terms to be banned:

Athletes foot

Breast

Condom

Flatulence

Intercourse

Period

Premature

Tongue

Herpes

Daily usage words to be banned:

Deeper

Fairy

Fingerfood

Hole

Hostage

Harder

Religious terms to be banned:

Devil

Jesus Christ

LGBT terms to be banned:

Gay

Homosexual

Queer

Musicians/artists to be banned:

Wuutang

Source

smfh, people r so stupid.

"deeper" - lmao

Lol tis why we are relevant and they are not.

GangusKahn wrote:Lol tis why we are relevant and they are not.

word.

lol wtf are they banning wutang and no one else for??

smh..

LMAO imma go to pakistan and perform a song with just them words

Arkade wrote:LMAO imma go to pakistan and perform a song with just them words

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STRANGEgenius wrote:

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GangusKahn wrote:

STRANGEgenius wrote:

Arkade wrote:LMAO imma go to pakistan and perform a song with just them words

id pay to go

I'll pay double!

triple - biatch.

Retards. Instead of writing Condom you just write c0nd0m. Fuckheads.