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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 902820" data-attributes="member: 1246">November 18, 2011 @ 1:29 pm |  Pakistan Order Phone Companies To Ban “Obscene” Words From Texting: List Includes “Jesus Christ,” “Athletes Foot” And “Monkey Crotch”…If this doesn’t make you laugh I’m afraid nothing will.(BBC) — The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has told mobile phone companies to begin blocking text messages containing “obscene” words. Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the PTA has sent them a “dictionary” of banned words and expressions. The PTA has reportedly ordered operators to begin screening text messages by 21 November. Ufone say they are now working on how to block the offending words. A letter dated 14 November, apparently written by Muhammad Talib Doger, an official at the PTA, has been leaked to Pakistani media. It states that mobile phone operators should begin screening the words, provided on a list attached to the letter, within seven days. “We have received both the dictionary and the memo and we’re discussing a way forward,” said Anjum Nida Rahman, corporate communications director for Telenor Pakistan. Some of the allegedly banned words: <ul style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Athlete’s foot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Flatulence</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jesus Christ</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Monkey crotch</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Back door</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bewaquf (foolish)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bakwaas (nonsense)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wuutang (a presumed reference to American rap group the Wu-Tang Clan)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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