Pakistan Cracks Down On Free Speech Online.

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Pakistan Cracks Down On Free Speech Online.

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Pakistan Cracks Down On Free Speech Online

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Journalists in Pakistan are up in arms after a new law was passed that empowers the government to punish anyone for spreading what the authorities deem online disinformation.

Journalists in Pakistan are up in arms after a new law was passed that empowers the government to punish anyone for spreading what the authorities deem online disinformation.

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It is kind of sad how much censorship and authoritarianism is in the middle east

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