Bangladesh authorities have blocked almost 20,000 websites as part of an anti-pornography “war”, a minister said Tuesday. Internet providers in the conservative Muslim-majority nation took down pornography and gambling websites in the past week under orders from the telecommunications regulator. And this will be a continuous war,” Mustafa Jabbar, the posts and telecommunications minister, told AFP. The crackdown was launched after Bangladesh’s High Court in November asked the government to block pornography websites and publication of obscene materials in electronic forms for six months. These websites are very well aware of the regulations and they come up with thousands of mirror sites every week,” Hoque told AFP.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2019 15:56 UTC