Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2006 - Internet: Saudi Arabia
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3 May 2006
The government agency in charge of "cleaning up" the Web, the Internet Service Unit (ISU), boasts that it currently bars access to nearly 400,000 sites with the aim of protecting citizens from content that is offensive or violates Islamic principles and social standards. The sites blocked deal mainly with sex, politics or religion (except those about Islam that are approved by the regime). This censorship regularly affects blogging, and blogger. com was made inaccessible for several days in October 2005.
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