Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A license to blog
"Licenses are now required for starting any e-publishing site in Saudi Arabia, after a regulatory change made by the country’s culture and information ministry. The new conditions for anyone to open a blog, an online newspaper, or any similar forms for e-publishing, must be of a Saudi nationality, over 20 in age, and must have a high school or higher qualification aided with a good record of appropriate bahvior conduct, and a license from the ministry." And Saudi propaganda sheet, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat (mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons) officially supported the new law. Do you see why I only have utter contempt for Saudi and Saudi funded Arab media? (thanks Farah)