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Travelling Shoes

Hi,

I just want to know if there are any Internet restrictions in Saudi? For example, can websites like yahoo, myspace and youtube be accessed?

Thanks in Advance:-)

RedGoblin

Sites which are blocked are usually those which are related to pornography and those which are against Islamic beliefs. social networking is not blocked (yet) and then youtube, apart from certain offensive videos, its all good. but then there are copyright regulations too for certain other videos.. like vevo.

Karlos Martin Sutra

No you won’t find any difficulties or restrictions regarding the mentioned Websites. But as any other government, there are some general rules are applied by the Saudi government.  You may be not allowed to access to some prohibited pages or sites that contains some of the below listed issues.

Some political site
Porno and sexual 
Hackers sites
Other pages contain religious issues.

There are some programs which can give you a full access to any site you want. and it is reachable :)

good luck

Travelling Shoes

@ RedGoblin and Karlos:

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question:).

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