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Blogging platform Wordpress has been banned in Pakistan temporarily. The Pakistan Telecommunications authority has reportedly asked all Internet service providers (ISPs) across the country to block access to the site, reports IBN Live. However, Hackedread, reports that self-hosted blogs on Wordpress are still accessible. At the moment users visiting WordPress.com or related blogs are redirected to a message as shown in the screenshot below: Hackedread also adds that Wordpress is being blocked due to its usage by Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an internationally funded terrorist group active in Pakistan and as the authorities don’t have a software that bans specific domain, they prefer to ban the whole platform affecting thousands of bloggers. Pakistan too has had a history of blocking websites and had banned YouTube in 2012 and the website continues to be blocked to this day. Other temporary bans include on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, IMdB and Flickr. Situation in India It's worth remembering that India too has banned entire websites, and not specific webpages, citing security reasons. Most recently, in January  32 websites were blocked by the Indian government, which included GitHubGist, Weebly, Dailymotion, and Vimeo, for hosting Jihadi content. Courts in India too issue John Doe orders to block websites and in July 2014 the Delhi High Court ordered 472 websites including Google Docs. after a complaint by Multi Screen Media, the Sony owned media company that broadcast the FIFA World Cup live in India. Yash Raj Films also got a John Doe order to block sites in 2013 when Dhoom 3 was released. What's clear…

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