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UAE Blocks Facebook

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

According to Download Squad, the United Arab Emirates has blocked Facebook. I honestly feel sorry for the UAE citizens that now have to live without Facebook. I’m sure they’ll find a way to manage but this is pretty bad. If you can empathize with them, go sign the ... Continue reading »

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  • I am currently in the UAE in the emirate of Dubai and Facebook is working ok. Didn't experience any outage until now.
  • i live in the uae and my facebook didnt work 2days ago but now its working just fine...i changed the proxy thats all
  • What is most disturbing to me personally is that a social networking website that I built on July 13, 2008 was censored in the UAE the following day, on July 14, 2008. The Hotel SEO Executives is a group that tallies only 20 members to date. It is a network of hoteliers and SEO executives worldwide that collaboratively exchange ideas and information pertaining to search engine optimization in the hotel industry. Hardly a threatening group! Definitely not an organization that would harm “the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates!” But yet a Hyatt Dubai hotel executive was blocked by Etisalat from registering on just that site.

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