THE NATIONAL — June 11 — Internet users in the UAE reported the fifth highest rate of website censorship out of nearly 200 countries, according to a new project mapping global online restrictions at home and in the workplace. The statistics showed that 382 different web pages were flagged as “inaccessible” by UAE users. The websites that were found by UAE users to have been filtered ranged from pornography and dating websites to religious pages. As of yesterday, users in China recorded the most blocked websites with 802, followed by the US with 546, Saudi Arabia with 465 and Germany with 423 reports.The full article was originally published at The National, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: I was interested in spending some time in Dubai, but two things made it a showstopper for me. No VOIP, and many dating sites are blocked. So I can’t use my telephone, and I can’t see my clients sites. Ah well. So much for the Dubai utopia.
http://www.be2.net is one of them. I have confirmed with many users from there that be2.net is officially blocked in the UAE
http://www.be2.net is one of them. I have confirmed with many users from there that be2.net is officially blocked in the UAE