Saturday, October 13, 2012

Fears that Hamas could extend Gaza porn ban to political websites


12 October 2012


"Palestinians in Gaza are having trouble accessing news websites after Hamas announced a crackdown on Internet pornography recently.

Abeer Ayoub, a 25-year-old political activist from Gaza City, has been unable to read the Israeli newspaper Haaretz online over the past few weeks. And when she tried to visit a website with the words “hot spots” in the title, a notice from the Hamas-run ministry for information technology appeared on the computer screen. It requested that she fill in a form, giving reasons why she wished to view the website in question.

It is up to me to choose what I want to watch and what I do not want to watch,” she said. “I strongly believe that this is some kind of repression of freedoms, so I do not agree with it.”......"

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