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Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Mike — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:52:50 -0000

You guys speak of freedom as though your countries were perfect models thereof. You probably restrict the sale of alcohol and pornography to children where you're from, right? You restrict the speed at which you're allowed to drive your vehicle in front of a school? You have probably even gone so far as to *completely ban* sale or possession, by everyone, of certain drugs and weapons?

Well, that's the line of social acceptability *your society has drawn*. The UAE and other middle eastern countries have their lines in different places.

Quit preaching.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

bilgi yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ± — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:59:07 -0000

twitter will be blocked in iran soon .

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Someone — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:50:06 -0000

Dubai et al, they want to be seen as an enlightened western part of Arabia, but all they are is a bunch of posers. They don't really care about the guests and about the visitors, they just want the money.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Thilo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:51:03 -0000

Time for proxy. Now it is the big business time of proxy owners.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Sean McGoldrick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:50:38 -0000

"Inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates."

Tell me whose Twitterings provoked that! I wouldn't mind following them!

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Mark \ — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:18:59 -0000

I know how to spell "smart" properly, each and every time.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

cocolaco — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:56:07 -0000

YouTube isn't banned country-wide in Australia. It's banned in some schools in one state.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Curt — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:40:16 -0000

This has been the case since early last summer. (As per link above.)

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

invisibastard — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:11:22 -0000

What in the hell are all of those squiggly lines on the screenshot? some new kind of webdings?

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

invisibastard — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:10:22 -0000

I'm riveted. Please tell us more!

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

The Michel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:35:48 -0000

freedom is forwarded to /dev/null

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

IAAdmin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:23:00 -0000

Is anyone surprised by this announcement?

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Jon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:54:19 -0000

Geez, Mark. Beijing is a whole country now? You are so smrt smart smart smart! I wish every reporter knew geography as well as you do.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Chad W Smith — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:53:33 -0000

It's just that the UAE doesn't want competition for their own state-funded microblogging site - cwensor.uae

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Koz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:26:55 -0000

I blame @Mohammed / @Mohammad ;)

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Parul — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:24:23 -0000

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Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Dan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:14:23 -0000

Well a country has the right to content that comes from outside.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

dd — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:19:52 -0000

these countries are so pathetic

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

Matt — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:58:52 -0000

Twitter was never legal in UAE. When I tried in late last year or early this year, it was banned. It only seems to be land-based internet access that gets banned. When I try on my blackberry it usually works just fine. But any of these sites are still reachable through other services or vpn into your company.

Re: Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates

individual — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:02:34 -0000

Well, if you managed to make a reactionary old fashioned stuck in the past bad guy angry you must have done something good. Cheers to Twitter!