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Sexy Dubai Chatter
By lmhall | September 27, 2007
Busy and strange week. We’re getting through it and hope you are too!
Google anaylitics reveals that we had a visit from Emirates Telecommunications Corporation. Also known as Etisalat.
Etisalat has been the sole telecommunications service provider in the UAE since 1976 until the arrival of Du (telco) in February 2007.
UAE-based Etisalat operates in Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Gabon, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Pakistan, and the U.A.E.
Etisalat has blocked thousands of websites on the web due to various reasons; the statement on the “ban screen” states that websites may be banned due to their content contravening the religious, cultural, political, and moral values of the United Arab Emirates. These websites include:
- Pornography
- The entire Israel TLD (.il)
- Certain social-networking websites
- Certain media-sharing websites (such as flickr, and user pages on YouTube)
- Anti-Islamic websites
- Certain websites which cover aspects of the United Arab Emirates in a critical manner such as uaeprison.com, hetq.am and arabtimes.com
- Anonymous proxy sites
- Based upon the directions of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the United Arab Emirates, Etisalat blocks some websites, such as VoIP. Skype is one such service blocked by Etisalat. Many see this action as a move to protect the profits of the telecommunications industry.
Keyword used to visit the garden: “Sexy Dubai Chatter”.
Topics: Garden, Politics, freedom, dubai, religion, customer service |
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