Saudi Arabia Filtering System

[Kramer]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia controls the information its citizens can readily access on the World Wide Web through a sophisticated filtering system that draws upon commercial software from the United States (Secure Computing's SmartFilter) for technical implementation and site blocking suggestions, expert local staff for operations and additional site identification, and Saudi citizen input to suggest over- or under-blocking according to stated filtering criteria. The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has tested filtering in Saudi Arabia over a three-year period. We found that the Kingdom's filtering focuses on a few types of content: pornography (98% of these sites tested blocked in our research), drugs (86%), gambling (93%), religious conversion, and sites with tools to circumvent filters (41%). In contrast, Saudi Arabia shows less interest in sites on gay and lesbian issues (11%), politics (3%), Israel (2%), religion (less than 1%), and alcohol (only 1 site). Unlike filtering in states such as China, the policies, procedures, and philosophy for Saudi Arabia's filtering system are relatively transparent and documented on the Web site of its Internet Services Unit (ISU). Users who try to access forbidden sites see a Web page informing them that the site is prohibited. Despite this openness about filtering, the system inevitably errs, resulting in overblocking of unrelated content.
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I gree with them --with all the crap going on the internet --kids are having a hard time sorting facts from fiction!

[Hyperactive]

this isnt good. 90% of websites people post here are blocked too. this is unacceptable consership.

[FAH1223]

[quote="hyperactive"]this isnt good. 90% of websites people post here are blocked too. this is unacceptable consership.[/quote]

hyper, how is it in Qatar?

[Hyperactive]

FAH1223 isn't much better than saudi arabia. my frends told me some way to trick the system like prox. You change your IP then you can serve the net. it's super slow though.

[*jr]

Here; http://psiphon.civisec.org

FAQ here: http://psiphon.civisec.org/faq1.html

By downloading this sofware you will be able to help those that are under a firewall or being censored by their own countries. So download above sofware and help someone outside of where you live avoid Internet censorship or filtering.


"psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor."


PS. I've added the psiphon link and it has all the answers you require...so go over there and check out the link before you ask me dumb or unnecessary questions here.