Egypt Bans The Porn

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While the whole world was busy celebrating Obama’s re-election, Egyptian Prosecutor-General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud submitted an official letter to the ministries of telecommunications, information and the interior on Wednesday ordering that measures be adopted to ban pornographic websites in Egypt based on a 2009 court order to this effect!!

A group of Salafist Muslims belonging to a grassroots campaign dubbed ‘Pure Net’ staged a demonstration in front of Cairo’s High Court yesterday to demand enforcement of the ban. Backed by several prominent Salafist preachers, the ‘Pure Net’ campaign calls for the prohibition of adult websites in Egypt on grounds that such sites “violate Egyptian customs and values.” 

We’re not mad because of the Porn, or do we believe that is coincides with Egypt’s customs or values,  we’re mad because of what this action signifies ~banning anything that the government doesn’t approve of on the Internet.

And this is how it is in most Gulf Countries and China etc. The idea behind the internet itself is destroyed once you start banning things on it, no matter what they are. Other than the fact that banning websites requires manpower, more technology, more work and hence more money. All the things that we currently lack in the country; things that can be devoted to much more important issues such as education, poverty, traffic, infrastructure, etc etc.

But what do we know…God Bless Egypt

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