Twitter is now banned in the United Arab Emirates because its content is “incosistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates“. I guess the fact that Twitter has no content per se doesn’t play a big part here; they’ve basically banned a tool for communication. Twitter now joins the army of other sites banned by the Emirates, most notably Flickr and Facebook.






Don’t forget Orkut which is banned as well. Not too mention Skype that cannot be accessed and downloaded from there.
@Hyder: thanks, the list is too long to name every banned service (:
Come on, Facebook is not banned, I can still use Twitter here in Dubai, I can post the screenshot of the sms I just got from it. (WILL not do on the banned flickr though.
That cleared up some confusion I had about my Arabian, great article