Pakistan, Nov. 21 -- Regardless of whatever possessed the government to notify the rather harsh rules that define how social media will now be governed in Pakistan, the move will backfire very quickly and in ways that it will find hard to manage all at once. The "Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules 2020 have been framed under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (PECA). And among many stipulations that it requires internet technology companies to abide by, which have shocked literally all industry stakeholders, there is also the usual bit about providing the government with any information or data that it might require in decrypted and readable format. If only the information...