Google took to the courts earlier this year in an attempt to stop the removal of a YouTube video deemed “harmful to children” by new Russian laws that govern media content. The rule, effective from November 2012, is an amendment to Russia’s Information Act and serves to censor internet content that portrays child sexual abuse, drug …
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SMS’s take a sinister turn in Saudi Arabia
For most of us, mobile messaging provides an invaluable and cheap method of staying in contact with loved ones and friends. But ‘keeping tabs’ has taken on a whole new meaning in Saudi Arabia where men are reportedly using SMS services to ‘monitor’ women. As of last week, the male ‘guardians’ of Saudi women have …