Participants: Haider Imtiaz, digital rights lawyer; and Tooba Syed, women’s rights activist and political worker
Summary:
This discussion revolves around the following issues:
- Activists in Pakistan use social media as a tool for organizing, mobilizing, and dissent and how restricting access to these media (e.g. ban on AWP website, CP Rules, etc.) affect their activities (e.g. political campaigning, mobilizing)
- Legality of the AWP website blocking case in the Islamabad High Court (lack of motive to block the website, etc.) and Haider’s petitions regarding the Mobile Network blockade (restrictions on Internet access)
- Islamabad High Court’s contempt notice to PTA for not formulating rules under Section 37 of PECA to ensure transparency
- What the future of social media and the Internet will look like if CP Rules or a similar regulation is implemented, and the possible way forward
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