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Pakistan bans 'monkey crotch', 'Jesus Christ' and obscene words in text messages

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Lucky Forward

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Pakistan bans 'monkey crotch', 'Jesus Christ' and obscene words in text messages

Pakistan's telecommunications agency has issued a list of words that it considers obscene or offensive, telling mobile phone companies to block text messages that contain them.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) deemed 586 Urdu words and 1,109 English words offensive or pornographic, according to reports in local media.

Some are expletives or sexual words while others are medical terms, but some entries have left many scratching their heads.

Included in the list are words such as "intercourse," "condom" and "breast," as well as seemingly ordinary words like "period," "hostage" and "flatulence."

Among the more bizarre are "monkey crotch," "wuutang" and "Jesus Christ."
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According to the letter, the PTA says blocking the texts is meant to control spamming, which it defines as "the transmission of harmful, fraudulent, misleading, illegal or unsolicited messages in bulk to any person without express permission of the recipient."

Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to BBC News that they had received the memo and the "dictionary."

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.
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More banned words:

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
 
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Wazzim

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Ok, time for the people to stand up to this bullshit. Stupid governments think they can do everything they want.
 
M

Manos: The Hans of Fate

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rance said:
Wutang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with
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Bay Maximus

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Of all the filthy, dirty, sleazy artists out there......they pick the Wu-Tang Clan??!??!?

"Even if she was my own mother I'd still fuck her with no rubber!" ....meh

"I did it all for the nookie, so you can take that cookie and shove it up your" ....hmm, meh

"Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with!"........What the <omitted> Ban this heathen!!!
 
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Sho_Nuff82

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Wazzim said:
Ok, time for the people to stand up to this bullshit. Stupid governments think they can do everything they want.
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The FCC (and the MPAA) ban shit (or blacklist with an NC17) all the time and Americans rarely do anything about it. Too much power on these organizations, they should be regulated by democratic process instead of some blurry definition of "the greater good."
 
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esquire

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I never knew such a thing was technically possible. Glad I don't live in Pakistan.
 
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Kurdel

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Well this seems healthy. Once again, we see the negative effects of religion creeping into public office, cramping peoples freedoms. Good times to live in!

I wonder how people in Pakistan are reacting to this news? Is Zanpages still around?
 
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Manos: The Hans of Fate

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Sho_Nuff82 said:
The FCC (and the MPAA) ban shit (or blacklist with an NC17) all the time and Americans rarely do anything about it. Too much power on these organizations, they should be regulated by democratic process instead of some blurry definition of "the greater good."
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You know the MPAA isn't a governmental body with any legal powers right?
 
bengraven

bengraven

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....athlete's foot?






Also, of all things, why JUST Wu Tang? Aren't several members actually Muslim? If that's the reason (bad influences, I suppose), there are a few popular acts/people they could be banning.
 
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Rapstah

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gwarm01 said:
I'll just add this to my list of things to tease my Pakistani friend about.
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"I'll just add this to my **** of ****** to ***** my Pakistany friend about."

Sounds naughty. Nah, not really, can anyone come up with a sentence that's way worse with the censorship?
 
Grinchy

Grinchy

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Sometimes I start feeling like I can't trust my government. Then I read shit like this and I get very glad that I live where I do.
 
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Atramental

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I want to put my Devil stick into your Jesus hole.

Edit: If I were to ever get a new tag I would want it to be this. It would work so well with my avatar.

Atramental
I want to put my Devil stick
into your Jesus hole.
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ULTROS!

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
They didn't ban the word sex? :p
 
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