U.S. Company Helps Saudi Arabia Censor The Net

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 17, 2002 @02:49AM from the or-the-next-bidder-steps-in dept.

John writes: "Saudi Arabia blocks its citizens' internet access to some sites on pornography, religious information (including some on the state religion: Islam) humor, music, movies, and homosexuality, and programs that translate web pages into Arabic, according to this Boston Globe article. (Secure Computing Corp.) provides the Saudis with Smartfilter to block network of proxy servers. The article does not describe the criteria used to block various cites. I wonder if Slashdot is one of them?" Update: 07/17 15:02 GMT by T : A brief mention ran yesterday at the Censorware Project as well, linking to the referenced report itself.

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Gosh hard to imagine. by TheGeneration · 2002-07-17 03:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Gosh it's hard to imagine a company which works so hard to please the Christian Right here in the USA would be able to find similarities in the Islamic Right.

I know... I know... it's just crazy to think that the Christian Right and the Islamic Right hold very similar view points on opression.

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