I'm Sorry!
Ooops! It looks like I owe the United Arab Emirates an apology! My site was NOT in fact banned specifically, but rather my photo host was banned( http://www.photos1.blogger.com/ ). What that means is that somewhere on their (huge) website are photos that don’t pass the censor’s muster. I am guessing that for technical reasons they have to ban the whole site or none at all.
While I strongly disagree with censorship in principle, I am not terribly concerned if the media being banned is explicit internet pornography. Such a thing has little or no redeeming value, and is especially offensive in a place as conservative as the Gulf. It is my guess that the host site was most likely banned for this reason. Banning pictures like mine is one of the unintended consequences of censoring others.
In any case, sorry UAE! (we still like ya!) I jumped the gun, it was apparently NOT political censorship.
While I strongly disagree with censorship in principle, I am not terribly concerned if the media being banned is explicit internet pornography. Such a thing has little or no redeeming value, and is especially offensive in a place as conservative as the Gulf. It is my guess that the host site was most likely banned for this reason. Banning pictures like mine is one of the unintended consequences of censoring others.
In any case, sorry UAE! (we still like ya!) I jumped the gun, it was apparently NOT political censorship.
posted by dervish at Monday, May 23, 2005
4 Comments:
as salaam alaikum
they might take it off the ban list of alot of complaints comeon. Since flikr is good about no porno they should take it off the ban list, even saudi did.
but you could try doing what I do, use geocities for a free website. Use the space to store your photos than link back in your text. Not that difficult really.. and geocities hasn't been on anyones ban list that I know of.
Don't tell me flickr is banned, too.
Assalaamu alaikum,
Our Internet service provider bans pornography, but I don't think all of them do. I prefer it, though, because I have children who use the Internet. As far as I know, they don't block anything else.
I don't think Flikr is banned, although I don't know. I have a Flikr account, but I don't get my photos directly from it. My host is Hello, a related company I think, and it's at http://www.photos1.blogger.com/
If Flikr got banned in the UAE there would be lots of upset folks out there, the UAE has a huge presence on Flikr.
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