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Dubai, like Saudi Arabia, provides the censorship as a public service. The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) pervasively filters Web sites that contain pornography or relate to alcohol and drug use, gay and lesbian issues, or online dating or gambling. Web-based applications and religious and political sites are also filtered, but less. Additionally, legal controls limit free expression and behavior, restricting political discussion  online. the news media,the internet service provider(ISP) and internet-based content provider in the UAE all face legal controls on expression and access to information. The UAE uses the SmartFilter filtering software to block nearly all pornography, gambling, religious conversion, and illegal drugs sites tested. The state also blocks access to all sites in the Israeli top-level domain. The topics which sensitive for the UAE are offensive views  to adherents of Islam. These include pornography, gambling, homosexuality, and other cultural issues. Conversion of Muslims to other faiths is a sensitive issue. they censor content and they provide an contact address to the government department in charge.   I don't especially like what Dubai is doing, but I think it is better than what China is doing.

Google censorship in China .....

Internet censorship in China is among the most stringent in the world. The government blocks Web sites that discuss the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement and other Internet sites.

In January 2010 ,government adopted this policy to restricts one of the world’s high profile companies ,as Google .announced that this company must stop their operations in China unless its search engine results were filtered .China  responded that companies doing business in the country must follow the law .Google closed its internet search service in march 2010 and began directing users in China to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong .Google attempt to skirt censorship requirements without making any trouble with Chinese law ,it appeared to anger official in China . Weeks later, Google signaled a softer approach to Beijing, saying it had created a Web page that offered users in mainland China a choice, rather than automatically directing them to its Hong Kong site.

Increasing censorship annoy Jordanian

Imad  al –Ash a computer science student was arrested by the government ,intelligence organization known here as the mukhabarat .the mukhabarat accused him to posting critical remarks about king’s policies on the jihadi website  but Al-Ash steadfastly denies all. slandering the royals in Jordan is a crime .he said slandering the royals is crime but without a copy of the post in question .Despite ,they don’t have hard evidence which Al-Ash had written the post .a military court senrenced the student to two years in prison .Jordan has struggled to find a balance between free speech and its old restriction on the internet as more and more of its citizens go online. “In the old media, it was easier for the government to control the content, but the internet has now given the ordinary citizen an unprecedented opportunity to be a journalist,” said Yahia Shukkeir, a local journalist and expert on media and internet censorship in Jordan.

when
u attack Black people, they call it Racism. when u attack Jewish
people, they call it Anti-semetism. when u attack women, they call it
Sexism. when u attack homosexuality, they call it Intolerance. when u
attack ur Country, they call it Treason. when u attack a religious
sect, they call it hate. But when ... they......... attack ... ...the Prophet Mohammad they call it "freedom of speech"

The problem of access block to you tube from turkey

Access to YouTube was first blocked in 2007 by the İstanbul 1st Criminal Court of Peace because of videos that contained insults to the person of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. When YouTube removed the content from its website, access was granted once more. However, similar videos were uploaded to YouTube again in 2008, therefore the ban was reinstated, and a Turkish prosecutor announced that as long as the offensive videos were not removed completely from YouTube's global database, the ban would remain and this restriction also continue . As YouTube has no official representation in Turkey, these calls to remove the videos have not been resolved.

Internet censorship in iran

Iran uses one of the most extensive technical filtering systems in the world .by using this strong system they can to block the foreign blogs and social network such as face book and etc. All internet traffic in and out of Iran travels through one portal the telecommunication company of Iran (TCI) though a few service providers operate below it .this make it easier to monitor traffic. And also decisions on blocking are made by a committee of government officials .in Iran filtering is done by the telecommunication ministry ."The authorities can filter a new website within 24 hours," said Mahmood Enayat, an Iranian expert at the Oxford Internet Institute. "They monitor very intensively. It's not really that sophisticated as they use domain names rather than key words, but that's still enough to stop users' access."