The picture below is the visible face of the censorship in Saudi Arabia. This page pops-up when you try to open pages or contens which are on the black list of the Ministry of Interior. Content filtering is applied to all international traffic. All international traffic is redirected through a proxy farm which, apart from filtering the content, blocks a number os sites, according to two lists: one containing 'immoral' sites (pornography, drug use, gambling, religious conversion of muslims), the other based on directions from a security committee, run by the Ministry of Interior.
However, as with many other things here, there is no clear criteria. As an examle, Hi5 is blocked yet access to Facebook is unhindered...
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