freedom of speech

"WORLD MEDIA NEEDS TO TAKE NOTE OF FREEDOM OF PRESS BEING CURBED IN PAKISTAN: RAHUL JALALI"

Rahul Jalali, a journalist, said the placing of a journalist of the Dawn newspaper on the Exit Control List on the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office is a direct attack on freedom of press in Pakistan and needs to be condemned by the global media. The newspaper asserted that it stands by the report and accused the government of “scape-goating the newspaper in a malicious campaign.” As a result, it is said that the President of Pakistan and the Army was upset about whatever Jalali wrote, despite stressing that "the report had not suggested anything untoward". 

The issue of blocking the freedom of speech in certain countries, such as Pakistan for secular reasons or not, is a perfect demonstration of something similar to the digital divide that some countries still are subject to. That they might have access to computers and Internet to comment whatever and whenever, but they're so restricted by their own government that it might get removed and victims of an illiberal and injustice system as a result. Perhaps some people do have access to the Internet, but they cannot experience the full extent of it.