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In all these countries as soon as you try to connect to a website where nudity or other banned content is displayed the mighty filter will divert you to a scre
by yannis 17y ago
In all these countries as soon as you try to connect to a website where nudity or other banned content is displayed the mighty filter will divert you to a screen telling you that the website displays prohibited material - Bing settings or no Bing settings. The actual search engine you use is immaterial and this is just a gimmick by Microsoft. Most people find this very annoying and would use https vtunnel or something similar :)
disclosure : Currently in Qatar
- cookiecaper 17y agoAnd in that environment, it makes perfect sense to filter that content out of your search results. If you don't, your users will get big no-no screens all the time, and you run the risk of getting banned yourself. This really doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
- scorpioxy 17y agoTrue. I live in Lebanon, and we have no such filter. It is the most liberal of Arab nations(some even say it isn't an Arab nation). Nudity in media is frowned upon, but we have a crazy night life that even I think is extreme sometimes. Go figure... Anyway, for the people it matters to, they quickly learn how to avoid such filters. Otherwise, you can get whatever you want from the bittorrent trackers which aren't banned.
- mahmud 17y agoI couldn't agree more. Lebanon, specially Beirut, is utterly sleazy and one vacation I will happily take back. There isn't much "organic" nightlife there; if you want to rub shoulders with juiced up muscle heads and trafficked prostitutes, Beirut is the place to be. For casual middle-eastern night life you're probably better off in Damascus, Cairo, Tunis, or Amman.