Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype

Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia's government, after banning Viber within the kingdom, is poised to prohibit at least two other such communication apps: Skype and WhatsApp. Says the article: "Conventional international calls and texts are a lucrative earner for telecom operators in Saudi Arabia, which hosts around nine million expatriates. These foreign workers are increasingly using Internet-based applications such as Viber to communicate with relatives in other countries, analysts say." With fewer legal options, a wide-scale Internet censorship regime would be easier to implement, too.

Comments

Not in the land of the Free

[hamvil]

Of course this could never happen in the land of the free

Re:kill them all

[Chrisq]

I hate Islam as much as anyone who treasures freedom and abhors discrimination, but this is not the answer. There are some people who are only Muslims because leaving Islam is punishable by death, by law in most Islamic countries and in practice by "honour killings" throughout the world. Ideally all Muslims would realise that Islam is just the ravings of a power-mad pedophile war lord and has no place in a civilised world