October 18, 2017 By Haroon Baloch (Bytes for All Pakistan) Maria Xynou (OONI) Arturo Filastò (OONI) Islamabad: Political dissent in Pakistan under threat, government censors online content - PC: Haroon Baloch A research study by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) and Bytes for All Pakistan. Table of contents Key Findings Introduction Background Network landscape and internet penetration Legal environment Freedom of expression Press freedom Access to information Privacy and digital surveillance Censorship Reported cases of internet censorship and surveillance Methodology: Measuring internet censorship in Pakistan Review of the Citizen Lab’s test list for Pakistan OONI network measurement tests Web Connectivity HTTP Invalid Request Line HTTP Header Field Manipulation Vanilla Tor test WhatsApp test Facebook Messenger test Data analysis Findings Minority groups Religious criti
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