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Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:53
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Dhahi Khalfan: We don't impose on other's our insistence to ban smut in the cyberspace
Dubai, Apr 14, 2009 (WAM): Commander General of Dubai Police Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim asserted that the Dubai Police did not ask the popular internet search engine company Google to block the pornographic pages from its YouTube network in Qatar. What the Police asked Google was to ban it in the UAE, added Tamim.
Dubai Police requested Google to ban approximately 500 pornographic and anti-religious terms from the video site YouTube.
The Commander General expressed surprise over the stance of Doha Centre for Media Freedom -a Qatar-based non-governmental organisation- who asked Google to reject the request.
The Centre may be considering licentiousness as praiseworthy and one among the duties of media work that does not accept any censorial moves. The Centre also interprets pornography as a legitimate right, which people are entitled to imbibe across the internet. But the Dubai Police do not agree with them in holding this view and so they have to recognise people who travel in the opposite direction.
Tamim denied reports that he had met Giselle Hescuk, Google's head of development for Europe and the Middle East to discuss the ban of 500 search terms. He clarified that it was his Deputy Major General Khamis Matar Al Mazeina who had met the Google official earlier to discuss the terms, which were compiled by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE.
These terms open the door into the smut in the cyberspace bringing in devastating effect on the young generation as the studies had shown, explained the Dubai Police Chief, who is also the Chairman of Juvenile Education Association in Dubai.
Dubai Police requested Google to ban approximately 500 pornographic and anti-religious terms from the video site YouTube.
The Commander General expressed surprise over the stance of Doha Centre for Media Freedom -a Qatar-based non-governmental organisation- who asked Google to reject the request.
The Centre may be considering licentiousness as praiseworthy and one among the duties of media work that does not accept any censorial moves. The Centre also interprets pornography as a legitimate right, which people are entitled to imbibe across the internet. But the Dubai Police do not agree with them in holding this view and so they have to recognise people who travel in the opposite direction.
Tamim denied reports that he had met Giselle Hescuk, Google's head of development for Europe and the Middle East to discuss the ban of 500 search terms. He clarified that it was his Deputy Major General Khamis Matar Al Mazeina who had met the Google official earlier to discuss the terms, which were compiled by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE.
These terms open the door into the smut in the cyberspace bringing in devastating effect on the young generation as the studies had shown, explained the Dubai Police Chief, who is also the Chairman of Juvenile Education Association in Dubai.
