[Orignall Posted March 29 2006]
As usual doing my investigations regarding the strength of Saudi censorship and proxies i found out they have been weakend subsequently since the start of 2006. Seems like they are really affected by the new US regulations dealing with IT security hardware and software. Under which, IT security gaints are supposed to restrict the sale of censorship equipments to oppresive regimes. Securecomputing and Cisco are just two to name here.
So welcome everyone, you dont need JAP or Privoxy anymore to bypass censorship and live with their slow as hell proxy servers. Many simpler utilities which never used work in past will work now and transparently indeed due to weakend censorship gateways. Another trick to bypass censorship is to hide your IP from being detected through internet explorer. Mind you, many forums and blog will not allow you to post if you do this.
Now im not gonna mention an entire how-to here regarding how to do this because i fear it may result in shutdown of this blog by MSN due to excessive traffic. If if are curious, shoot me a message.
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
this website is offically blocked in Saudi Arabia
[Orignall Posted February 27 2006]
Ok the juicy domain www.nakedsaudigirls.com pointing to this website is offically blocked by the authority responsible for nation wide internet filtering in Saudi Arabia. Probably the Sheikh Dissapointed did not like the domain or some pissed off saudi visiting the blog reported it. It doesnt makes senses to be blocking this website since its got no porn on it. And this clearly contradicts with the ISU policy which says that they only block pornographic and criminal website.
May be it was that pissed off "saudi guy" posting comments over the ISU article telling me to go home or may be ISU saw the critisizing cover blowing article published about them on Oct 2 - 2005. What ever be the case.
Just another proof that ISU are a bunch of idiot and they have no policy or rules regarding filtering what so ever. They will block what ever they want.
Ok the juicy domain www.nakedsaudigirls.com pointing to this website is offically blocked by the authority responsible for nation wide internet filtering in Saudi Arabia. Probably the Sheikh Dissapointed did not like the domain or some pissed off saudi visiting the blog reported it. It doesnt makes senses to be blocking this website since its got no porn on it. And this clearly contradicts with the ISU policy which says that they only block pornographic and criminal website.
May be it was that pissed off "saudi guy" posting comments over the ISU article telling me to go home or may be ISU saw the critisizing cover blowing article published about them on Oct 2 - 2005. What ever be the case.
Just another proof that ISU are a bunch of idiot and they have no policy or rules regarding filtering what so ever. They will block what ever they want.
For god sake, get out of your stone age..
[Orignally Posted January 16 2006]
While the world is debating issues like next generation internet, cloning, space stations and high speed information networks, Saudi's are still stuck in the stone age debating issues like women driving and movie theaters. It doesnt get any more pathetic than this and its published in the news papers..
Why No Cinemas?
Source: ArabNews
Saud Al-Balawi • Al-Watan —
This question might be asked by many Saudis who remember seeing films in theaters in the Kingdom as recently as the 1970’s. Certainly the question might be asked by those who travel hundreds — or even thousands of miles — to watch films in neighboring countries. Essentially, cinema is no different from watching TV; indeed many films are shown on our satellite TV stations.
Still, watching a film in a theater is somehow more exciting that watching it at home — and this has made companies run after the profits to be made by opening theaters.
Many people still fondly remember the films once shown in the Al-Hamra Movie Theater in Jeddah. Children saved money from their monthly allowances in order to have outings at the cinema. Last Eid after Ramadan, some hotels in Riyadh began showing children’s film. All indications are that the children who saw the films enjoyed the experience. After the films were shown, the Information Ministry said that it had not issued a permit. The truth is that many people wish the ministry would license movie theaters while others, for their own reasons, hope the ministry will not.
There are people who reject the idea totally. The fear of something new has long been a part of our culture — look at our initial reactions to radio and television. In the past, cinemas were closed because a group in society wanted them closed. These days, many want to see cinemas in the Kingdom as a means of entertainment similar to TV and coffee shops. Our Saudi idea of privacy, which is really a form of isolation, is a problem. Just when we seem about to catch up with the rest of the world, we realize we are trapped far behind. Change will surely come — it has in the past — and it will just as surely be resisted by some.
With its accession to the WTO, Saudi Arabia will witness both economic and social changes. I believe that not being in touch with other cultures will isolate us and make us misunderstood strangers. Rejecting the idea of a cinema is no different from other rejections in the past.
In the past, people rejected the idea of satellite dishes. Now we see them on every rooftop. If we had cinema, it would be under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Just as virtue is protected in wedding halls, educational institutions and in public, so it will be protected in cinemas. I am sure no one would be forced to go into a cinema and neither should one who wants to enter be prevented from doing so.
Many people, Saudis and non-Saudis, want to enjoy themselves and escape from the pressures of their daily lives. Entertainment could provide a way; it would give people pleasure and enable them to see joy in the faces of their children.
While the world is debating issues like next generation internet, cloning, space stations and high speed information networks, Saudi's are still stuck in the stone age debating issues like women driving and movie theaters. It doesnt get any more pathetic than this and its published in the news papers..
Why No Cinemas?
Source: ArabNews
Saud Al-Balawi • Al-Watan —
This question might be asked by many Saudis who remember seeing films in theaters in the Kingdom as recently as the 1970’s. Certainly the question might be asked by those who travel hundreds — or even thousands of miles — to watch films in neighboring countries. Essentially, cinema is no different from watching TV; indeed many films are shown on our satellite TV stations.
Still, watching a film in a theater is somehow more exciting that watching it at home — and this has made companies run after the profits to be made by opening theaters.
Many people still fondly remember the films once shown in the Al-Hamra Movie Theater in Jeddah. Children saved money from their monthly allowances in order to have outings at the cinema. Last Eid after Ramadan, some hotels in Riyadh began showing children’s film. All indications are that the children who saw the films enjoyed the experience. After the films were shown, the Information Ministry said that it had not issued a permit. The truth is that many people wish the ministry would license movie theaters while others, for their own reasons, hope the ministry will not.
There are people who reject the idea totally. The fear of something new has long been a part of our culture — look at our initial reactions to radio and television. In the past, cinemas were closed because a group in society wanted them closed. These days, many want to see cinemas in the Kingdom as a means of entertainment similar to TV and coffee shops. Our Saudi idea of privacy, which is really a form of isolation, is a problem. Just when we seem about to catch up with the rest of the world, we realize we are trapped far behind. Change will surely come — it has in the past — and it will just as surely be resisted by some.
With its accession to the WTO, Saudi Arabia will witness both economic and social changes. I believe that not being in touch with other cultures will isolate us and make us misunderstood strangers. Rejecting the idea of a cinema is no different from other rejections in the past.
In the past, people rejected the idea of satellite dishes. Now we see them on every rooftop. If we had cinema, it would be under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Just as virtue is protected in wedding halls, educational institutions and in public, so it will be protected in cinemas. I am sure no one would be forced to go into a cinema and neither should one who wants to enter be prevented from doing so.
Many people, Saudis and non-Saudis, want to enjoy themselves and escape from the pressures of their daily lives. Entertainment could provide a way; it would give people pleasure and enable them to see joy in the faces of their children.
NAKED SAUDI GIRLS
[Orignall Posted December 11 2005]
So i shell out a few bucks last night and registered myself the domain nakedsaudigirls.com. Yeah ok it sounds pornographic. But "naked saudi girls" is one of the most popular search term on google. From inside Saudi Arabia as well as from outside. It denotes the high intrest of internet surfers with naked saudi girls. Especially those who are inside Saudi Arabia, probably because they see them all covered head to toe all the time, the curosity gets them best to peek under the veils and internet is the best place to start with. But not under veils of saudi women, sorry to dissapoint you, internet surfers.
In reality, there is no website on the internet featuring "naked saudi girls". Atleast not one in my knowledge upto date but if something like that does steps in future then sure im getting some big bucks for my domain. Not sure if i would be really intrested in selling it. I rather keep it as a brave gadget name. Perhaps a free mail service yourname@nakedsaudigirls.com might be a good tease or lure. The facination is that, finding "naked saudi girls" on the internet is nearly impossible if not totally impossible at the time of writting this blog.
Meantime, below is an article from Howard Musing blog published in Feburary 2003. This article comes as the first result on google when u query for "naked saudi girls"
I keep getting hits for the search term naked saudi girls. I understand the allure of naked Saudi girls -- well naked Saudi women, anyway. (I'll give the searcher the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he means "girls" in the red-light district "Girls! Girls! Girls!" sense.) There are no naked Saudi girls on the page it links to, nor (as far as I know) on this entire site, I wondered who might search Google and my site for naked Saudi girls, so I checked my site's log:
My goodness, what a surprise! It comes from the jewel of Wahabbism, Saudi Arabia. And during the Hajj, no less. Clearly they have no shame. Where's the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice when you need it? Probably busy. Did you happen to notice this notice from above?
All Saudi Arabia web traffic goes through a proxy server, so it will probably give Sheik Disappointed a warm feeling to know that they've recorded his web search too.
Posted by Howard Hansen at February 8, 2003 02:19 PM
So i shell out a few bucks last night and registered myself the domain nakedsaudigirls.com. Yeah ok it sounds pornographic. But "naked saudi girls" is one of the most popular search term on google. From inside Saudi Arabia as well as from outside. It denotes the high intrest of internet surfers with naked saudi girls. Especially those who are inside Saudi Arabia, probably because they see them all covered head to toe all the time, the curosity gets them best to peek under the veils and internet is the best place to start with. But not under veils of saudi women, sorry to dissapoint you, internet surfers.
In reality, there is no website on the internet featuring "naked saudi girls". Atleast not one in my knowledge upto date but if something like that does steps in future then sure im getting some big bucks for my domain. Not sure if i would be really intrested in selling it. I rather keep it as a brave gadget name. Perhaps a free mail service yourname@nakedsaudigirls.com might be a good tease or lure. The facination is that, finding "naked saudi girls" on the internet is nearly impossible if not totally impossible at the time of writting this blog.
Meantime, below is an article from Howard Musing blog published in Feburary 2003. This article comes as the first result on google when u query for "naked saudi girls"
I keep getting hits for the search term naked saudi girls. I understand the allure of naked Saudi girls -- well naked Saudi women, anyway. (I'll give the searcher the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he means "girls" in the red-light district "Girls! Girls! Girls!" sense.) There are no naked Saudi girls on the page it links to, nor (as far as I know) on this entire site, I wondered who might search Google and my site for naked Saudi girls, so I checked my site's log:
t1:/$ tail -400 /var/log/apache/path/to/access.log grep naked
OK, so the hit came from IP address 212.138.47.27.
212.138.47.27 - - [08/Feb/2003:07:42:08 -0800]
"GET /2002/11/17.html HTTP/1.0" 200 22948
"http://www.google.com/search?q=naked+saudi+girls&
ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ar&lr="
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
Wonder who that is?
Anyone care to venture a guess? t1:/$ whois 212.138.47.27% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
inetnum:
212.138.47.0 - 212.138.47.255
netname: ISU-5
descr: Internet Service
Unit ISU
country: SA
admin-c: KR6046-RIPE
tech-c: KR6046-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: KACST-ISU-MNT
mnt-lower: KACST-ISU-MNT
remarks: ------------------------------------------------------
remarks:
Part of this IP block has been used for proxy/cache
remarks: service at the
National level in Saudi Arabia. All
remarks: Saudi Arabia web traffic will
come from this IP block.
remarks:
remarks: NOTE: If you experience high
volume of traffic from
remarks: IP in this block it is because your site is
very
remarks: popular/famous of Saudi Arabia community.
remarks:
------------------------------------------------------
changed:
ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 19991005
changed: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 19991212
changed: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 20010707
source: RIPE
route:
212.138.0.0/16
descr: Saudi Arabia backbone and local registry address space
origin: AS8895
holes: 212.138.64.0/22
holes: 212.138.68.0/23
holes: 212.138.70.0/24
notify: abuse@isu.net.sa
mnt-by: ISU-NOC
changed: abuse-tj@isu.net.sa 20000114
changed: abuse-tj@isu.net.sa
20011112
source: RIPE
role: KACST ROLE
address: Saudi Network
Information Center, ISU
address: King Abdulaziz City for Science and
Technology,
address: P.O.Box 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
phone:
+9661 481 3932
fax-no: +9661 481 3254
e-mail: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa
trouble: abuse@isu.net.sa
admin-c: ZOM1-RIPE
tech-c: RA705-RIPE
tech-c: ANAS1-RIPE
nic-hdl: KR6046-RIPE
remarks: This Role object is
for handling and maintaining all
remarks: IP Blocks registered by
SaudiNIC(LIR) in Saudi Arabia.
mnt-by: KACST-ISU-MNT
changed:
ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 20010701
source: RIPE
My goodness, what a surprise! It comes from the jewel of Wahabbism, Saudi Arabia. And during the Hajj, no less. Clearly they have no shame. Where's the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice when you need it? Probably busy. Did you happen to notice this notice from above?
remarks: Part of this IP block has been used for proxy/cache
remarks: service at the National level in Saudi Arabia. All
remarks: Saudi Arabia web traffic will come from this IP block.
All Saudi Arabia web traffic goes through a proxy server, so it will probably give Sheik Disappointed a warm feeling to know that they've recorded his web search too.
Posted by Howard Hansen at February 8, 2003 02:19 PM
Saudi Internet Censorship revisited..
[Orignally Posted October 02 2005]
I would like to congratulate their failed mission of censorship anyway since i am able to get unceonsored internet via various methods and sources ever since i made my first click on internet from inside Saudi Arabia
Most of Kingdom’s Internet Users Aim for the Forbidden
Raid Qusti, Arab News
Source: ArabNews
(Comments in blue colour text)
RIYADH, 2 October 2005 — Of the estimated 2.2 million Internet users in the Kingdom, the majority regularly try to access forbidden or indecent material, Arab News has learned.
“Of those who log on to the Internet, 92.5 percent are trying to access a website that, for one reason or another, has been blocked,” said Dr. Mishaal Al-Kadhi, acting general manager of the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
KACST is not only the Internet gateway for the Kingdom but also acts as a filter for unsuitable material. The official said that pornographic material was one of the main items on the city’s “black list” which also includes gambling, terrorism and politics as well as anything contrary to Islamic beliefs.
He said that since the royal decree was issued in 1998 choosing KACST as the gateway for the Internet in the Kingdom and authorizing it to act as a filter, a special committee had been set up to decide what should and should not be inaccessible.
“A permanent security panel was established for this purpose. It consisted of members from 10 ministries, headed by the Interior Ministry,” he explained. A year after the panel’s establishment, 85 percent of the material on the blocked sites was pornographic with the remaining being what was deemed “inappropriate” for the Kingdom.
Asked why he thought many of those who access the web in the Kingdom were looking for pornography, Al-Kadhi said that he did not believe the Kingdom was any different from other nations in the world regarding this phenomenon. He went on to note, however, that a new dangerous tendency has begun to sweep the Internet: People “have shifted from pornography to pedophilia.”
Common sense, they were looking for online pornography more than other nations because they dont get to see their own women!!
He said that according to statistics from different countries around the world, there had been a global increase in the demand for pedophilia on the Internet.
So what, forget the internet, pedophilia happen in Saudi Arabia on dirty dark streets, behind shopping malls, in dark tinted cars, inside police cars and stations at night, rest houses and resorts, etc, etc, you name it, these are just few examples.
“Pedophilia has become a major problem in many countries. In Germany alone there are 30,000 people addicted to pedophilia and 20,000 others who are its victims. There is even a nationwide campaign there that asks people, ‘Do you like children too much?’” he said. He said that there was a similar problem in Italy too.
Al-Kadhi said that according to a Swedish official responsible for filtering the Internet there, “after Sweden passed new laws in the year 2000 aimed at preventing people from having sex with children, many had turned to their pets.”
Ok this offical is a responsible for filtering the internet, not reporting the social behaviours of their country. Then what this person has got to do with non-internet activities and why the heck an internet authority would waste time and money to research on what their nation is having sex with after child-porn is blocked????? This is a job of ministry of social affairs and such statement should come from them, not an unnammed offical responsible for internet filtering.
He said that these bizarre sexual preferences were being fought by the European Union with new legislation. “The governments of many European countries are now using ‘safer Internet’ from which this kind of material is filtered.” No they dont belive in babying their citizen by blocking and filtering the internet, but they rather fight it with education and intelligence. Thousands of people and pedophillia rings have been busted and arrested since the champaign started somewhere in 2001 (not sure)
He pointed out that many committees were trying to increase public awareness of the phenomenon. “We (officials in Saudi Arabia) feel justified since we blocked this kind of thing from the very beginning and will continue to do so,” he said.
Yes but you did not mention many other non-pornographic material blocked. Do website preaching human right, forigen worker rights, women right, social freedom and health also qualify as pornopgraphic??? what about Google SafeSearch??? why do your enforce Google SafeSearch they redirecting??
Al-Kadhi said that KACST had received the Asia Pacific Information and Technology Award for providing the best software to block adult sites.
No, they did not recive any such Asia-Pacific Award. But i will satisfy their optimistism for award by giving a "Shame on You 2005" award.
The system uses “Robots,” a program that automatically blocks certain phrases on an adult website and has an accuracy of 99.9 percent, he said.
Dumbass, take a lesson in O'Level Computing. Robots is a term for web crawlers used to index website on keyword basis for various purpose such as listing in search engine or inclusion in black list of a flitering software. Perhaps i can question the validity of your MIS degree now??? And now to the more serious part, KACST does not use any program called Robot, or even a software utilizing robots. You are using a software called SmartFilter made by a US firm Secure Computing. Just a common sense note, if KACST/ISU was using any program based on keyword indexing, the so-called roboting method, then not only thousand of websites on the internet would prove it by their access log but also it would be much easier to keep your website out of KACST block list - by simply blocking the KACST/ISU robot aka crawler.
Asked about the blocking of sites that promote terrorism, he said that KACST works only as a technical agency and that it blocks such sites when it receives an order to do so from the Interior Ministry.
And what about the websites promoting the terrorism under the so-called phrase of Jihad or supporting sucide bombing and acts such. Dont you count that as terrorism.
He explained that KASCT did not screen personal e-mails and would not do so unless it received a request relating to national security from the ministry.
Commenting on the blocking of websites which would permit Internet users to access information about other religions such as Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity, the official said that there were no laws to ban those sites but that KACST naturally made mistakes like any other group or organization.
But KACST is not suppose to block any website until an order form higher authority is recieved to do so, then how this can be counted as a mistake. You are contradicting yourself Mr. Minister.
He said KACST had ignored requests from many people to block all religious sites except for Islamic ones. Any person, he added, may fill out a request concerning a blocked URL and send it to KACST, mentioning the reasons why the site should not be blocked.
Well in the past and even in present as i recall, many non-islamic religious websites were blocked, even those who did not insult islam, islamic teaching, Saudi Arabia and its monarchs.
“The request is reviewed within 24 hours,” Al-Kadhi added. He said KACST was not to blame for the slow Internet dial-up connections in the Kingdom, adding that the problem was with the Saudi Telecom Company lines.
Atleast this is true. But i am sick of Unresolved Host Name errors even when accessing common websites such as MSN, Google, etc etc..and even ArabNews.. they are sure not because of STC, are they??? Please fix your DNS cache now!!
I would like to congratulate their failed mission of censorship anyway since i am able to get unceonsored internet via various methods and sources ever since i made my first click on internet from inside Saudi Arabia
Most of Kingdom’s Internet Users Aim for the Forbidden
Raid Qusti, Arab News
Source: ArabNews
(Comments in blue colour text)
RIYADH, 2 October 2005 — Of the estimated 2.2 million Internet users in the Kingdom, the majority regularly try to access forbidden or indecent material, Arab News has learned.
“Of those who log on to the Internet, 92.5 percent are trying to access a website that, for one reason or another, has been blocked,” said Dr. Mishaal Al-Kadhi, acting general manager of the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
KACST is not only the Internet gateway for the Kingdom but also acts as a filter for unsuitable material. The official said that pornographic material was one of the main items on the city’s “black list” which also includes gambling, terrorism and politics as well as anything contrary to Islamic beliefs.
He said that since the royal decree was issued in 1998 choosing KACST as the gateway for the Internet in the Kingdom and authorizing it to act as a filter, a special committee had been set up to decide what should and should not be inaccessible.
“A permanent security panel was established for this purpose. It consisted of members from 10 ministries, headed by the Interior Ministry,” he explained. A year after the panel’s establishment, 85 percent of the material on the blocked sites was pornographic with the remaining being what was deemed “inappropriate” for the Kingdom.
Asked why he thought many of those who access the web in the Kingdom were looking for pornography, Al-Kadhi said that he did not believe the Kingdom was any different from other nations in the world regarding this phenomenon. He went on to note, however, that a new dangerous tendency has begun to sweep the Internet: People “have shifted from pornography to pedophilia.”
Common sense, they were looking for online pornography more than other nations because they dont get to see their own women!!
He said that according to statistics from different countries around the world, there had been a global increase in the demand for pedophilia on the Internet.
So what, forget the internet, pedophilia happen in Saudi Arabia on dirty dark streets, behind shopping malls, in dark tinted cars, inside police cars and stations at night, rest houses and resorts, etc, etc, you name it, these are just few examples.
“Pedophilia has become a major problem in many countries. In Germany alone there are 30,000 people addicted to pedophilia and 20,000 others who are its victims. There is even a nationwide campaign there that asks people, ‘Do you like children too much?’” he said. He said that there was a similar problem in Italy too.
Al-Kadhi said that according to a Swedish official responsible for filtering the Internet there, “after Sweden passed new laws in the year 2000 aimed at preventing people from having sex with children, many had turned to their pets.”
Ok this offical is a responsible for filtering the internet, not reporting the social behaviours of their country. Then what this person has got to do with non-internet activities and why the heck an internet authority would waste time and money to research on what their nation is having sex with after child-porn is blocked????? This is a job of ministry of social affairs and such statement should come from them, not an unnammed offical responsible for internet filtering.
He said that these bizarre sexual preferences were being fought by the European Union with new legislation. “The governments of many European countries are now using ‘safer Internet’ from which this kind of material is filtered.” No they dont belive in babying their citizen by blocking and filtering the internet, but they rather fight it with education and intelligence. Thousands of people and pedophillia rings have been busted and arrested since the champaign started somewhere in 2001 (not sure)
He pointed out that many committees were trying to increase public awareness of the phenomenon. “We (officials in Saudi Arabia) feel justified since we blocked this kind of thing from the very beginning and will continue to do so,” he said.
Yes but you did not mention many other non-pornographic material blocked. Do website preaching human right, forigen worker rights, women right, social freedom and health also qualify as pornopgraphic??? what about Google SafeSearch??? why do your enforce Google SafeSearch they redirecting??
Al-Kadhi said that KACST had received the Asia Pacific Information and Technology Award for providing the best software to block adult sites.
No, they did not recive any such Asia-Pacific Award. But i will satisfy their optimistism for award by giving a "Shame on You 2005" award.
The system uses “Robots,” a program that automatically blocks certain phrases on an adult website and has an accuracy of 99.9 percent, he said.
Dumbass, take a lesson in O'Level Computing. Robots is a term for web crawlers used to index website on keyword basis for various purpose such as listing in search engine or inclusion in black list of a flitering software. Perhaps i can question the validity of your MIS degree now??? And now to the more serious part, KACST does not use any program called Robot, or even a software utilizing robots. You are using a software called SmartFilter made by a US firm Secure Computing. Just a common sense note, if KACST/ISU was using any program based on keyword indexing, the so-called roboting method, then not only thousand of websites on the internet would prove it by their access log but also it would be much easier to keep your website out of KACST block list - by simply blocking the KACST/ISU robot aka crawler.
Asked about the blocking of sites that promote terrorism, he said that KACST works only as a technical agency and that it blocks such sites when it receives an order to do so from the Interior Ministry.
And what about the websites promoting the terrorism under the so-called phrase of Jihad or supporting sucide bombing and acts such. Dont you count that as terrorism.
He explained that KASCT did not screen personal e-mails and would not do so unless it received a request relating to national security from the ministry.
Commenting on the blocking of websites which would permit Internet users to access information about other religions such as Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity, the official said that there were no laws to ban those sites but that KACST naturally made mistakes like any other group or organization.
But KACST is not suppose to block any website until an order form higher authority is recieved to do so, then how this can be counted as a mistake. You are contradicting yourself Mr. Minister.
He said KACST had ignored requests from many people to block all religious sites except for Islamic ones. Any person, he added, may fill out a request concerning a blocked URL and send it to KACST, mentioning the reasons why the site should not be blocked.
Well in the past and even in present as i recall, many non-islamic religious websites were blocked, even those who did not insult islam, islamic teaching, Saudi Arabia and its monarchs.
“The request is reviewed within 24 hours,” Al-Kadhi added. He said KACST was not to blame for the slow Internet dial-up connections in the Kingdom, adding that the problem was with the Saudi Telecom Company lines.
Atleast this is true. But i am sick of Unresolved Host Name errors even when accessing common websites such as MSN, Google, etc etc..and even ArabNews.. they are sure not because of STC, are they??? Please fix your DNS cache now!!
Internet censor ship further stricted!!
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To hell with saudi internet censorship!!
[Orignally posted July 16 2005]
first we cried ages and ages for fast internet.. Now we have accecptable speeds of internet, something still not eligible to be classified as "fast". How ever censorship has gone way beyond tolerance. Basically ISU doesnt have any defined rules or sense of censorship. They will put anything in the block list which is declared evil or deviant by their god damn wahoobi mullahs.
Censorship has got soo stringent that website which barely have a pic or two of a girl in full dressed gets blocked immedeatly as soon as some stupid illetrate wahoobi saudi moron brings it to the ISU notice..
And now we have a new kind of suffering, filtering of search engine query strings and forcing a redirection. As a result surfers cant seem to disable safe search feature of many search engines such as google, yahoo, alltheweb, etc etc etc.. this kind of filter is yet not imposed in the smaller cities like Medina. So no matter how much you try disabling safe search, the google will keep showing you search results filter under strict safe search criteria.
What a waste of time and useless filter. strict safe search is soo useless, it even filters out website containing vulgar language commonly used over the internet in blogs and forums. So will never find what your were looking for.. sometimes not even generic information.
So, we the users of internet in Saudi Arabia are stuck with highly censored and controlled internet and cant do much about it unless and offcourse get a Sat Net (http://www.orbitsatnet.com/)
Well, im putting my last hopes on orbit sat net to bypass this insane censorship fully once for all, otherwise this stringent censorship has left the internet totally usless making saudi's more of an ass than they already are..
first we cried ages and ages for fast internet.. Now we have accecptable speeds of internet, something still not eligible to be classified as "fast". How ever censorship has gone way beyond tolerance. Basically ISU doesnt have any defined rules or sense of censorship. They will put anything in the block list which is declared evil or deviant by their god damn wahoobi mullahs.
Censorship has got soo stringent that website which barely have a pic or two of a girl in full dressed gets blocked immedeatly as soon as some stupid illetrate wahoobi saudi moron brings it to the ISU notice..
And now we have a new kind of suffering, filtering of search engine query strings and forcing a redirection. As a result surfers cant seem to disable safe search feature of many search engines such as google, yahoo, alltheweb, etc etc etc.. this kind of filter is yet not imposed in the smaller cities like Medina. So no matter how much you try disabling safe search, the google will keep showing you search results filter under strict safe search criteria.
What a waste of time and useless filter. strict safe search is soo useless, it even filters out website containing vulgar language commonly used over the internet in blogs and forums. So will never find what your were looking for.. sometimes not even generic information.
So, we the users of internet in Saudi Arabia are stuck with highly censored and controlled internet and cant do much about it unless and offcourse get a Sat Net (http://www.orbitsatnet.com/)
Well, im putting my last hopes on orbit sat net to bypass this insane censorship fully once for all, otherwise this stringent censorship has left the internet totally usless making saudi's more of an ass than they already are..
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