Why IMDB was blocked in Pakistan

hash86

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Oct 15, 2012
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Rahim Yar Khan
The biggest International Movie Database was banned, without any prior notice or reason of any sort, all across the country that initiated a wave of hatred and frustration among the millions of Internet users already annoyed by the inexplicable ban on YouTube and the unnecessary hustle they have to bear everyday.
The ban did not last for more than a few days, when recently it was lifted, again without any official reason. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) did not release any official statement clarifying their stand on the matter.
It was not until recently, when IMDB reinstated in the country everything seemed to go back to being normal until one thing stood out to be odd.
Then it struck the academics like lighting, The perfect timings for IMDB getting banned and The ‘odd’ incident fall in place to form a perfect picture. One of the conspiracy theories stated that it was the bad reviews of ISPR made over the movie WAAR led to the ban of IMDB, but once you get to know the truth, these speculations would seem so amateur.
The rumor has it that, Believe it or not the reason for which IMDB was blocked was to banish any traces left of the notorious movie named “The Line of Freedom”.

“The Line of Freedom” still remains to be a ‘blocked content’ from viewership within Pakistan. Most of the movies Google Results, it’s theatrical trailers on major video hosting websites even its reviews are banned from viewership within the country.
The question that now arise is Why? Why is the movie Line of Freedom (2012) such a taboo topic in Pakistan? The reason are even more shocking.
Directed by David Whitney, the movie revolves around the real life-story of a student named Nasir Baloch from Balochistan, and his survival story when he was abducted by Official Security Forces. The movie gets momentum after the forces are shown to torture Nasir only to eventually shoot him with a definite intention to kill and dump his corpse in the desert. Miraculously Nasir survives and thus the story unfolds further that exposes a rather unsettling image of the country’s most reputable organizations and officials, along with their despicable activities in Balochistan.
Watch the real banned trailer of the movie ‘The Line of Freedom’

copied from :
Why Was IMDB Blocked in Pakistan? [SHOCKING REVELATIONS] - NewsMedia247
the link also has the movie trailer...
cheers
 

maryfarrukh

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Jul 26, 2011
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IMDb was blocked?

When did that happen? I visit the site every day, multiple times, and it didn't deny me access a single time
 

opethian

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lol ... cheap publicity ...
i wonder how america is still surviving despite all its documented violations of international laws etc
plz guys grow up ... those who think a bloody 3rd class movie was the source of utter disturbance in life style of people here
Blocking of IMDB was a more disturbing n life shattering experience for some people than unavailability of fuel, high prices of daily use commodities, insecurity of a common man's life n sectarian conflicts etc ...
 
May 8, 2009
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Waisay most of its searches, including the specific IMDB page, is indeed blocked. So yea there's some truth to that. I don't care about the film. Nor do I care about the subject. But if blocking topics that are against 'state-elements' becomes a norm around here then there's some real insecurity floating around.
 

Gizmo

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May 6, 2009
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^^I'm pretty sure that was it. the PTA has done way worse, I mean the video that got youtube blocked in Pakistan was way worse and totally pathetic. It didn't deserve the reaction and attention it got form these morons.
 

kaiser

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Jun 11, 2008
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So I just saw the movie on youtube. My apologies to PTA and our government. Normally I am an open minded person but this has propaganda written all over it. It would have been best to let everyone watch it. The dialogue is particularly hilarious as most of the cast is foreign.

Its a C grade short movie by the way, which I would have never heard or read about, had it not been given the traction by PTA.
 
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mave3

Modding Freak!
Jan 30, 2009
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what are the trying to prove by doing all this??
its still doesnt stop anything...!!!!
then whats the point :dance4:
 

Nauman 360

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Feb 3, 2008
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Great PTA.. go ahead block Facebook and Google as well.. and maybe Wikipedia too. I wish we had some freedom in Pakistan where nothing was blocked or filtered.
 

Black CoBra

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Jan 28, 2007
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by doing a quick google for The Line of Freedom, the first result was IMDb link and it looked like this

lolzz, 4.7 rating's saying enough about the quality of this shit.
 
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