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TPS in Islamabad Bloggers Meet-Up

By Farid Masood • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Islamabad bloggers offline meet-up held, on December 29th, 2008 (the Monday) evening from 1700 ~ 2000 Hours, in IEEE building Bahria University Islamabad. Event was organized by CIO and Google Pakistan & some volunteers from the University. Wateen provided the wireless connectivity and Red Bull was Official Drink.
It was the first ever opportunity in which [...]



Your Feedback Plz: User Registration at TPS

By The Pakistani Spectator • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The comments and articles are free at TPS without any sort of restrictions and TPS cherishes this liberty and intends to carry it on. But due to high load of spam, obnoxious comments and unwanted inbound spamming links we are pondering upon a proposal to introduce user registration system at TPS. According to this system, [...]



Free Speech on The Pakistani Spectator

By Dan Tow • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

I will begin with a few remarks inspired by the responses to my last article Limits of Free Speech: Based on those insightful responses, I think that earlier article (which focused on the legal issues behind free speech) missed the more important question, which is how best to live with the moral responsibilities of free [...]



Limits of Free Speech

By Dan Tow • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

I would like to describe an American perspective on free speech in today’s article. In US legal terms, “freedom of speech” is actually broader than it sounds, really extending to a freedom that applies to all forms of expression. For example, the US Supreme Court has held that laws forbidding burning the US flag are [...]