37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
In few places is the contrast between the internet’s liberating possibilities and its most troubling hazards more sharply drawn than in Pakistan.
For its burgeoning online population of 30 million people, the universal promise of the medium as a link to a world without borders comes up against a raft of local restrictions imposed on the technology itself (YouTube and a range of other sites are blocked) and its use as a tool for surveillance of the user.
The tensions are particularly acute for women, whose digital lives, at least in some parts of the country, play out against the backdrop of a conservative culture where even the fact of being online can carry a stigma.
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