How do they sensor the internet?
I have chatted in Yahoo to citizens of the UAE, and I could have uploaded files as well.

Or are they afraid to hire another 100,000 staff, and just let it slip through?

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I don't know about the UAE but in Qatar all internet traffic goes through one server provider. The provider blocks various websites, usually due to pornography but I'm sure they also block sites that offend 'moral sensibilities' or are anti-Islam.

I once started a thread in BAUT asking for a summary of a webpage that I couldn't access.

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Check out the black bars on that babe.

The article quotes a person as saying he doesn't want the pictures to get into the hands of children. I've heard people say this before and I've always wondered just what they think children are likely to do with the pictures. Turn them into weaponized anthrax? Construct a giant, city destroying robot from paper mache? Distract President Bush while they steal his launch codes? What?

Is satellite Net access available?

I've always said, Simple jobs for simple minds.

But I realize that is probably not politically correct...so I've never actually said it

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Grow up into healthy, normal adults?

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

[irony]What? Do you not realise how offensive the human body is?! It'll undermine the moral fabric of society.[/irony]

This might work. Don't give them ideas!

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Grow up into healthy, normal adults?

As opposed to adults who require all female flesh to be covered and the female form to be made shapeless, lest they lose control and succumb to their animal desires to ravage them?

Exactly.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I've had breasts since I was a child and they have developed as I have matured. You can censor magazines and newspapers, but you can't hide breasts from me.

Lucky you. I havn't

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I need to go on a diet.

I'm not sure but it is likely, perhaps in an unofficial manner. That said you can buy TV cable packages that offer all sorts of channels with, shall we say, mature entertainment. That's why I found the censorship laws so odd, Gulf countries will black out pictures of women in bikinis in magazines but meanwhile there are 20+ satellite channels showing far "worse" than that.

Also here they edit movies that screen in theaters to remove kissing and other unappropriate scenes. Yet the crudest, low-brow humour/jokes are perfectly acceptable. And all the movies are uncensored when sold as a DVD. I don't really understand how the censorship laws work.

That they still censor magazines in the UAE is even funnier since it is more liberal than Qatar. Alcohol is openly sold and prostitution is commonplace in bars in Dubai. What censoring a few magazine photos is going to accomplish is beyond me.

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I've never really understood censorship. It doesn't make any sense to me.

One nonsensical aspect of it is, are the censors somehow immune to what they are censoring? If so, what makes them special? Or are censors subject to FIFO, the personnel rosters constantly changing to prevent individual censors from spending too much time with the material and thus running the risk of becoming corrupted?

Other unanswered questions: do censors have mirrors in their bathrooms?
If so, do they then bathe with their clothes on? Or do they strip naked but wear a blindfold?

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They are such great human beings that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for our moral health.

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I love this quote from the article: "“I believe what we are doing is important, not just to protect the cultural values of the country but also I wouldn’t want these pictures getting in the hands of children.”

Yeah.

Heaven help the poor child who actually sees either where he came from or the source of his nourishment for the first year or so of his life...

What's next? Blindfolding babies as they suckle?

Of eating breasts? Isn't that cannibalism?

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I don't understand the concept of our bodies being obscene. I spend a lot of time being in my body and have grown very fond of it. I think its beautiful, interesting; sort of a work of art.

Am I the only one who *sometimes* stands in front of a mirror and marvels at the unique living system that evolution has produced?? Hey, no jokes about vanity and narcissism here.

Seems everyone wants to play:Iran has over 15 million mobile phone subscribers

Hi!

We're from the government and we're here to protect you!

Hand over all your media that contain illustrations...

War is Peace.

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How noble of them!

They should get The Angstrom Medal.

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Great photo, Mak, can you movitate 'im, too?

You're right on the edge, AstralSpirit.

Start talking out-of-body experiences, and the Board may have to sensor you

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Sure.

BTW, the motivation here is a ritual dance which keeps away evil spirits. This was in response to a situation that arose in Utah a few days ago.

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hmmmmm, sensor me?

There are times I've stood in front of a mirror and wondered, given the overall appearance, why it hasn't begun to smell yet.

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Why it's that silver coating on the back of the mirror!

Wait sec here! I see a lot of pots calling the kettles black!

Ever talk to real Irishmen about religion? I did. Best be prepared to duck. Only ever spoke my true mind once, then learned my lesson. Back in the early eighties. I literally barely escaped with my life. Seems these particular Irishmen weren't at home in Ireland for very good reasons. So not only did I pick the wrong group to talk about the moral pros and cons of machinegunning churchs during services with, I picked the wrong subset as well.

Same can be said for a majority of the Southern boys I served in the Navy with. If something was seriously out of sorts, just having a chat with our Ordinance Shop in my squadron would often set it correct. Our ordinance shop at the time was 95% Southern with more than half Deep South. Can't even tell you on this forum the instances why I had to do that, instead of going to the authorities, but it was actual mind-numbing vileness.

More locally we have Mexicans (catholic) vandalising and desicrating Buddist and Taoist displays in front of various restarants, stores and institutes. 'Cause they're "heathen devil worshippers" of course.

So don't be poking the Moslems for something everybody does. They are trying to protect their culture as they see fit.

I swear, you all act like a pack of little girls sometimes.

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