Saudis Censor Western Websites
Over 2,000 U.S. websites are blocked by the SaudiGovernment, and not just pornography, either. Many of themare cultural information or woman’s sites. “We foundblockage of quite a bit of content beyond political contentand pornography,” says Ben Edelman of Harvard University.”We found the blocking of content about women’s history orsites about bathing suits. So if you want to buy somethingto swim in, they seem to treat that as it were pornographicin Saudi Arabia.” Some of the blocked sites are: The ArabAmerican Roman Catholic Community, The Islamic CulturalLibrary, iVillage.com, Beach Queen swimwear, Warner BrothersRecords and Rolling Stone.com.
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