Saudi Arabia Requiring Bloggers to Register With Government
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Is blogging a right or a privilege? That all depends on where you live, I suppose. It seems that, in Saudi Arabia, the government will soon be regulating all blogging. Arabic language news site Media Note is reporting that the country will require all Web publishers to register their sites with the government–bloggers, forum owners, etc.
The message was related to the press by Abdul Rahman Al-Hazza, a spokesman for the country’s Information and Culture Ministry. According the Al-Hazza, the initiative isn’t an attempt to cut down of free speech in the country. Instead, the government is looking to cut down on “libel and defamation.”
As TechCrunch points out, Saudi Arabia has a history of arresting bloggers and shutting down Twitter accounts with view points that don’t match up with its leadership.
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