[66548] in North American Network Operators' Group
interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Thu Jan 15 17:12:54 2004
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From: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
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http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/2147220
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Eyas S. Al-Hejery, PhD, may be the only
computer geek in Saudi Arabia to have had the eyes of the world focus on
his work. That's because he's head of the country's Internet Service
Unit, which runs the country's infamous Web-censoring system that is
supposed to defend Saudi citizens from "those pages of an offensive or
harmful nature to the society, and which violate the tenants [sic] of
the Islamic religion or societal norms."
......
And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in
the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single
point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.
