Saudi Arabia to confront ‘cultural war’ on social media

Sally

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I can imagine how many people are happy to be able to leave these Muslim countries so that they are free to be themselves. There are articles by former Muslims saying that they have dropped out but don't tell their family and friends because of the consequences, plus there are the same percentage of Gay people in every group under the sun, including Muslims, no matter how much they deny it.

Saudi Arabia to confront ‘cultural war’ on social media

Cyber crimes law may be ammended to criminalise homosexuality and atheism online

By Habib ToumiBureau ChiefPublished: 11:33 June 3, 2014
Manama: Saudi Arabia is looking amending its anti-cybercrime law to allow legal proceedings against sites and networks that promote alleged sexual depravation, prostitution and atheism and target the Saudi society, according to reports.

Consultative Council Member Fayez Al Shehri told London-based Al Hayat that there are 25,000 accounts dedicated to homosexuality and child prostitution and 4,500 accounts devoted to promoting atheism that are targeting Saudis directly.

Al Shehri, a researcher and consultant in new media uses, said that social media, network sites and microblogs were responsible for what is published and therefore legal procedures could be launched against them if they did not review their policy.

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