Pakistan's internet censors seek help from Canadian company


  • World
  • Thursday, 19 Sep 2013

A man sits at an internet cafe in Rawalpindi September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - In a nondescript, creeper-draped building in the capital of Islamabad, a small team of men is purging Pakistan's Internet.

Shadowy government officials are blocking thousands of pages deemed undesirable. But they are not fast enough. So the government is now testing Canadian software that can block millions of sites a second.

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