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5 August 2010

Blackberry face growing pressure in the Gulf and India over encryption code

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy, regulation

The United Arab Emirates’ Telecommunications Regulation Authority (TRA) and The Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced, respectively on August 1st 2010 and on August 5th, 2010, that they will block some functions of the Blackberry due to non-compliance with the regulatory requirements in both countries.

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26 July 2010

Web filtering In the Middle East using Bing Microsoft's search engine

Written by Tal Pavel · Feature

Research conducted earlier this year examined the extent of Internet filtering in Arab countries made using Bing search engine of Microsoft for terms with a sexual orientation. Bing search engine...

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1 April 2010

Censorship Without Borders: A Moroccan Blogger's Experience

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Advocacy

Naoufel Chaara is a talented Moroccan blogger. His website [Ar] has been recently nominated for the Deutsche Welle's 2010 BOBs international award in the Best Arabic Blog category. Naoufel's usually...

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18 January 2010

UAE e-magazine ordered shut.

Written by Victor Ngeny · Feature

Hetta, United Arab Emirates online magazine has been ordered shut after they lost an appeal case launched against it by the Abu Dhabi Media Company. The e-magazine which was the...

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21 September 2009

The Power of 140 Characters: Twitter in the Middle East

Written by Tal Pavel · Advocacy

The massive, sustained protests in Iran this past month against the regime’s apparent falsification of the presidential election results was enabled by widespread employment of new communication technologies. Among them...

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17 March 2009

UAE: YouTube Ban Possible, Goodbye Flickr

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · regulation

Bloggers in the UAE are worried that YouTube may be banned in the Emirates, after access to photography hosting site Flickr has been totally blocked. According to Press reports, YouTube is ranked among the top 10 most popular sites in the UAE and news about its possible censorship has sparked debate in the blogosphere.

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16 April 2008

UAE: Du prepares to block offensive websites

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · United Arab Emirates

DU, the United Arab Emirates' second Internet Service Provider serving Dubai free zones such as Dubai Media City, Dubai Internet City, Knowledge Village, Marina and other residential complexes, has started...

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