Iraqi government seeks to block pornographic websites

[sabra]

Source: M&C

Baghdad - The Iraqi government on Monday said it had appointed a general to oversee efforts to prevent internet users from accessing pornographic websites.

The Iraqi cabinet decided that blocking such sites would be consistent with the Iraqi constitution and the country's laws, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had appointed General Ali al-Saadi to head a committee to look into means of identifying and blocking the sites, according to a statement.

Officials from the ministries of communications, higher education, and science and technology would seek to block pornographic sites, 'which are incompatible with the values of the Islamic religion, and the customs, traditions, and norms of our (Iraqi) society, and with the cohesion of families,' the interior ministry said.

The ministry insisted it would not be blocking sites with 'cultural, scientific, technical, social, economic, artistic or touristic value,' and said that 'many other countries' had benefited from similar online blocking.



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[Ian David]

1. I guess they solved all their other problems then. n/t

[izquierdista]

2. The porn studio running at Abu Ghraib?

I think they evicted those tenants. Although for some reason they continue to hang around and won't go home.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. if only their reasons for doing it was out of an immense respect for women and protecting them

from being subjugated by men.

[Sin]

4. well that should be simple.

Just cut the all the communication lines coming in and that should solve all that evil porn off the web for them.
Plus Don't they know that ... 1..2..3 every one now "The Internet is for Porn" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo (The WoW version is one of the best.)