BlackTerrel
07-13-2010, 01:33 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/12/data-shows-pakistan-googling-pornographic-material/
They may call it the "Land of the Pure," but Pakistan turns out to be anything but.
The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material, FoxNews.com has learned.
“You won’t find strip clubs in Islamic countries. Most Islamic countries have certain dress codes,” said Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. “It would be an irony if they haven’t shown the same vigilance to pornography.”
So here's the irony: Google ranks Pakistan No. 1 in the world in searches for pornographic terms, outranking every other country in the world in searches per person for certain sex-related content.
Pakistan is top dog in searches per-person for "horse sex" since 2004, "donkey sex" since 2007, "rape pictures" between 2004 and 2009, "rape sex" since 2004, "child sex" between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, "animal sex" since 2004 and "dog sex" since 2005, according to Google Trends and Google Insights, features of Google that generate data based on popular search terms.
The country also is tops -- or has been No. 1 -- in searches for "sex," "camel sex," "rape video," "child sex video" and some other searches that can't be printed here.
Notice that this isn't even the "normal stuff". They rank #1 for searches for some of the most disturbing things imaginable. I doubt this would hold truer if they were a freer society. The more a country tries to legislate thought, speech, choice etc.. the more it backfires.
I have said the same thing for Europe when it comes to free speech. Racism is illegal in most European countries. So saying something like "blacks are less intelligent than whites", "Islam inspires terrorism" or "the holocaust didn't happen" can land you in jail in most European countries. But by almost any measure Europe is considerably more racist in the US where people are allowed to say such things but are instead debated and mocked.
Taking freedom away is never a good choice. And much of the time has the opposite effect of what was intended.
They may call it the "Land of the Pure," but Pakistan turns out to be anything but.
The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material, FoxNews.com has learned.
“You won’t find strip clubs in Islamic countries. Most Islamic countries have certain dress codes,” said Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. “It would be an irony if they haven’t shown the same vigilance to pornography.”
So here's the irony: Google ranks Pakistan No. 1 in the world in searches for pornographic terms, outranking every other country in the world in searches per person for certain sex-related content.
Pakistan is top dog in searches per-person for "horse sex" since 2004, "donkey sex" since 2007, "rape pictures" between 2004 and 2009, "rape sex" since 2004, "child sex" between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, "animal sex" since 2004 and "dog sex" since 2005, according to Google Trends and Google Insights, features of Google that generate data based on popular search terms.
The country also is tops -- or has been No. 1 -- in searches for "sex," "camel sex," "rape video," "child sex video" and some other searches that can't be printed here.
Notice that this isn't even the "normal stuff". They rank #1 for searches for some of the most disturbing things imaginable. I doubt this would hold truer if they were a freer society. The more a country tries to legislate thought, speech, choice etc.. the more it backfires.
I have said the same thing for Europe when it comes to free speech. Racism is illegal in most European countries. So saying something like "blacks are less intelligent than whites", "Islam inspires terrorism" or "the holocaust didn't happen" can land you in jail in most European countries. But by almost any measure Europe is considerably more racist in the US where people are allowed to say such things but are instead debated and mocked.
Taking freedom away is never a good choice. And much of the time has the opposite effect of what was intended.