Qatar: Some Facebook Applications Banned

Posted 29 March 2008 1:30 GMT

Countries	Qatar
Topics	Freedom of Speech, Technology, Digital Activism
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Ngourlay announces that Qatar Telecoms has blocked some of Facebook's applications. The blogger also lists five reasons the telecom provider censors sites: pornography, political criticism of Gulf countries and anti-Islamic sites; some sites are also blocked ‘by mistake' and others are banned because they may be offensive to some people.

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