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Pakistan To Censor Gay Words (and Flogging the Dolphin) from Text Messages

Posted by on Nov 21, 2011 in World | 3 comments

Satan's donut or Jesus Christ's harem deposit?

Content goes If Pakistan’s telecom regulator has its way, millions of mobile phone users may be unable to send text messages with “offensive” and “obscene” words like crap, damn, hobo, flatulence, gay, lesbian and slime from Monday. These words are part of a list of nearly 1,700 words and terms that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has deemed as offensive, and wants mobile phone operators to filter from SMS text messages.

Operators have been directed to start blocking text messages containing these words from November 21.

The list of banned words that will begin to be censored by Pakistan’s cellular companies has made a laughing stock of the lawmakers and movement to limit free speech in general.

A bizarre host of words and phrases appear scattered throughout the list, including: athlete’s foot, deposit, black out, drunk, flatulence, glazed donut, harem, Jesus Christ, hostage, murder, penthouse, Satan and “flogging the dolphin”.

So if you know what’s good for you you’ll keep your Satan deposit out of Jesus Christ’s glazed donut, lest you both catch athlete’s foot.

This law makes it seem as if nobody in Pakistan has ever met a teenager. Twenty bucks says it takes less than five minutes after the ban goes into effect for the entire country’s under 18 population to adopt an adult-proof text language. This censorship is not only offensive, but also a complete waste of time.