Petro-Muscles: Is Middle East Internet Censorship Going Global?..........
Is this my imagination or are certain websites hacked, blocked, and forced offline? Two offshore Saudi websites, one claims to espouse reform and the other supports regime change, have gone offline over the past two weeks. One of them claims regime interference, and notes that videoclips posted on You-tube were blocked by the service. The Arab oligarchs block local sites and throw bloggers in prison routinely, but is their reach going global now? Is it all my imagination or are the oligarchs flexing their petro-muscles with the likes of Google and other huge corporations that dominate the internet now?
Even if I don’t agree with some of their content, by instinct I like websites that piss off the Middle East oligarchies. I hope they thrive and proliferate.
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