May 20, 2013
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Censorship in Saudi Arabia is prevalent in the press and with Internet access.
In 2008 Reporters Without Borders ranked Saudi Arabia 161st out of 173 countries for freedom of the press.
Saudi Arabia directs all international Internet traffic through a proxy farm located in King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology. Content filter is implemented there, based on software by Secure Computing. Since October 2006, the CITC has been handling the DNS structure and filtering in Saudi Arabia in the place of KACST. Additionally, a number of sites are blocked according to two lists maintained by the Internet Services Unit (ISU): one containing "immoral" (mostly pornographic) sites and sites promoting Shia Ideology, the others based on directions from a security committee run by the Ministry of Interior (including sites critical of the Saudi government). An interesting feature of this system is that citizens are encouraged to actively report "immoral" sites (which promotes liberal Islamic...
(via Freebase)
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