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.
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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