Kuwait Calls for BlackBerry Porn Filter

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willgart

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1. Business man wanted an escort ;)
2. Because they are not invest any $ in RIM...

if its not this... then... I don't know the answers :)
 

fire_storm

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All porn is filtered there but they can view it on blackberry because RIM servers bypass their proxies so they can't filter it them selves
 

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I'm just glad that Kuwait has some sense. If you negotiate well, RIM will listen. It's been like this with many other governments worldwide.

Saudi Arabia and co. are just annoying, whiny kids that don't understand the ways of a civilized nation.
 

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I would have thought it would have been fine if the women were covered and gays in the video were shooped into a video being executed?
 
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I just dont understand why a good Muslim man would surf porn or why the country would need a filter. arnt these people soposed to be the most rightous?
 

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[citation][nom]Tovas[/nom]I just dont understand why a good Muslim man would surf porn or why the country would need a filter. arnt these people soposed to be the most rightous?[/citation]
Riiiiight...
This is a nation where you can be arrested for kissing your own wife in a restaurant, exposing your knees or shoulders in public, but oddly enough there is no problem with rampant prostitution. Women who are raped can be arrested and put to death for having a child outside marriage, or worse, adultery because they had sex with another man. The whole Arabian Peninsula is nothing more than a 12th century culture dragged into the 21st century world because of oil.

In the West there is separation of Church and State for a good reason, over there religeon interferes too much.
 

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technically all regions have problem with porn if I'm not mistaken
but the problem in Kuwait is that most rim users are 12 years and above (and I'm being generous in saying 12 kids 8 years old here have mobiles) so their concerns is mainly for the minors
 

hhb6

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irh_1974 do you really believe that? its 2010 stop getting your facts from movies

it took the Western civilization many decades to finally get where they are today so its not fair to compare it to country's that got their independents 50 or 60 years ago
 

irh_1974

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[citation][nom]hhb6[/nom]it took the Western civilization many decades to finally get where they are today so its not fair to compare it to country's that got their independents 50 or 60 years ago[/citation]
It took Western civilisation a bit more than many decades, supposedly Persia was the cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago. They were the most progressive, civilised and cultured peoples in the world when England was nothing more than savages living in mud huts.
The Western world has got where it has over thousands of years and all the strife that has gone with it.
How come seeing as they had a couple of millenia headstart the Arab world isn't exploring the galaxy?

And as for getting my information from movies, I have actually been there. When was the last time you went?
 

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[citation][nom]hhb6[/nom]technically all regions have problem with porn if I'm not mistakenbut the problem in Kuwait is that most rim users are 12 years and above (and I'm being generous in saying 12 kids 8 years old here have mobiles) so their concerns is mainly for the minors[/citation]
"OH NO THE CHILDREN". Please, that argument is about as sound as trying to cross the Atlantic in a bucket made from paper.

Stopping porn is down the parent, not the government. No exceptions. The government is out to look after the interests of it's people, not the morals.

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I wish people would stop trying to defend the Arabian peninsula, and Islam just because they want to seem liberal. I can say, I have, first hand, as someone who has extremely close experiences with the Arabian peninsula can say; it's half as terrible as the media portrays. Not completely, but half, and that's still pretty damn bad.

Honestly, if I had to be woken up at 5am by preachers in mosques shouting "WAKE UP BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE PRAYING" every day, I'd go insane. In fact, I did, it was horrible. I'm glad such behaviour is illegal here, and not almost-mandatory.
 

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I still live in Kuwait and I agree with irh_1974. The facts he/she gave are true. While it may not always be enforced, if you offend the wrong person with your clothing, your affection, you're gonna have problems.

I will say the argument for children having Blackberries here could be a concern. Many preteens have BB's so I see that as a valid concern.
 

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I'm Kuwaiti
Its true that the laws here forbids such behaviors and acts but in reality people here are diverse and range from the most extreme to the very liberals
hell for the right price you can find almost anything alcohol ,guns , prostitute etc
but my point is we aren't living in tents and ride camels and start wars
most of the instructors in my university are Americans and they love living in Kuwait their only complain is the weather and some time when they cant find alcohol
 

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Let's be honest here. The countries complaining about Blackberry servers aren't that free. These governments are just mad that they have no visability over and can't control what Blackberry users are doing or looking at. If you can't control it, just threaten to close it down. It works in China (in theory anyway).
 
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