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Is This News?

Today in the Arab Times I see this announcement:

Ministry monitoring Internet networks to block porn sites

KUWAIT : The Ministry of Communications is monitoring Internet networks to block porn websites and clamp down illegal Internet telephony, Al Seyassah daily quoted the Director of Telephones Monitoring Department at the Ministry of Communications Eng Nasser Al Khandari as saying. The department is also monitoring various areas for such illegal telephone service providers.

Is this news? One time, I was looking for tablecloths, and the site was blocked for inappropriate content. It seems to me that the Ministry of Communication has an ongoing battle, trying to block content providers. As for illegal telephony . . . it appears they are cracking down mostly on large scale telephone service providers, not on the individual VOIP phones. VOIP users complain from time to time about “listeners” and about echos, but I think this is more a result of poor connections than any local actions. Am I wrong?

Which ministry is it that will be/is monitoring bloggers?

February 9, 2008 Posted by | Blogging, Bureaucracy, Community, Crime, ExPat Life, Family Issues, Kuwait, Living Conditions, Privacy, Technical Issue | , , | 8 Comments