The controversial page of the social networking site Facebook which led the Pakistan government to ban the entire site was back online Saturday, was reopened after two days. It was removed on Thursday after one of the moderators had his e-mail and Skype account hacked into, and his personal data revealed, according to a post on the page on Saturday. The moderator then got scared and deleted the page, a blog, and e-mails.
Having over 108,000 fans and over 11,700 photos posted on Saturday, though the Facebook users who created the page put it back up Saturday, some users in India were able to access it for only a brief time before their access was once again blocked. The page "Everybody draw Mohammed Day!" had some caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, which led a court in Pakistan to order the site to be blocked with a lot of protest on the streets of Pakistan.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered on Wednesday to block the social networking site Facebook and Youtube until further orders for displaying "sacrilegious" content. It said it had also blocked over 450 links on the Internet that contained derogatory material.
According to Facebook, when dealing with user-generated content on global Web sites, there are occasions where content that is illegal in one country is not, or may even be protected, in another. Most companies, including Facebook, approach this issue by preventing certain content from being shown to users in the countries where it is illegal.
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