#TwitterTheocracy campaign to force Twitter to abandon censorship and blasphemy laws

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Tuesday June 10, 2014 · 2:35 PM PDT

2014/06/10 · 14:35

Over the past month, Twitter accounts have been suspended and tweets have been blocked in Pakistan; a Twitter user has recently been jailed in Turkey for a “blasphemous” tweet. In Pakistan and other theocracy-based states, blasphemy laws are key tools used by those in power to actively persecute minorities

The New York times covered how Twitter recently gave the government in Pakistan Carte-blanche censorship abilities at http://www.nytimes.com/...

A coalition of secular and humanist groups lead by Ex-Muslims of North America has put together a day of protest (today) using the hashtag #TwitterTheocracy to highlight the problem. You can read more details at http://www.exmna.org/...

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