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[FYI] Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia
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- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:16:57 +0200
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/saudiarabia/
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Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia
Jonathan Zittrain* and Benjamin Edelman**
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
Abstract: The authors connected to the Internet through proxy servers
in Saudi Arabia and attempted to access approximately 60,000 Web
pages as a means of empirically determining the scope and
pervasiveness of Internet filtering there. Saudi-installed filtering
systems prevented access to certain requested Web pages; the authors
tracked 2,038 blocked pages. Such pages contained information about
religion, health, education, reference, humor, and entertainment. See
highlights of blocked pages. The authors conclude (1) that the Saudi
government maintains an active interest in filtering non-sexually
explicit Web content for users within the Kingdom; (2) that
substantial amounts of non-sexually explicit Web content is in fact
effectively inaccessible to most Saudi Arabians; and (3) that much of
this content consists of sites that are popular elsewhere in the
world.
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