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Saudi Arabia's Censorware -- An Inside View

posted by Jamie McCarthy on Wednesday January 14, @09:58AM
from the air-conditioned dept.
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Robin Miller is in Saudi Arabia right now, and has filed a report on the country's censorware:

The Saudi Internet filters are easy to defeat. I found at least a dozen anonymous surfing sites that let me view all the porn anyone could want in less than 30 minutes, and I have viewed more online porn while testing the Saudi content filters than I had looked at in my entire life before this experiment. Al-Hejery, too, knows that anyone with much knowledge of the Internet and computers can blow right by the Saudi content filters. He sees the filtering as a way to protect children and other innocents from Internet evils, and not much more than that.

... just about any site that portrays Judaism or Israel in a positive light isn't allowed ...

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