The authorities approached the internet providers hosting my personal website and asked them to block it and delete all the content.
Other ways of Internet censorship also include threatening bloggers, as reported by Amnesty International: “I have been harassed in many ways. As for Mobile apps, here are the ones blocked in Saud Arabia: Viber, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Skype. Authorities indeed blocked LINE’s calling feature over the weekend of September 3 2016, adding another one to the long list of VoIP services and messaging apps entirely or partially blocked in Saudi Arabia. In 2016, residents of Saudi Arabia became more angry as they could no longer make calls using the messaging and voice calling app called LINE. Riyadh Najm did not specify if the censorship was on videos posted from Saudi Arabia or onto the YouTube full content. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia ranks first for the percentage of its population (around 28 million inhabitants) who use YouTube.Īccording to OpenNet Initiativ, a site specialized in studying Internet monitoring practices, users who want to post videos must make a request to the authorities to get a license and have to comply with the production content terms. The head of the Saudi organization, Riyadh Najm, said in the newspaper Al -Hayat that ” among its responsibilities, the Authority’s mission is to monitor the content of videos posted on the Internet, including on YouTube ,” claiming that “No country in the world shall tolerate the lack of supervision” on the websites. The Saudi Broadcasting Authority was seeking to censor the content of websites, including now YouTube video platform. In 2012, Saudi Arabia was aiming at increasingly monitoring online videos. Indeed, 18 months after the Internet was introduced in the Kingdom back in 1999, the number of sites that have been banned in the country already reached 200,000. Saudi Arabia Internet censorship is said to be one of the most extensive in the world. Are you dreaming of an unblocked Youtube in Saudi Arabia?
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