Saudis Train Morality Police to Monitor Web Use
The government of Saudi Arabia will soon begin a technical training program to teach its morality police to monitor Internet use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to Middle Eastern media reports.
Under a plan approved by Saudi King Abdullah, the kingdom?s religious police have been granted oversight authority over various forms of digital media including the Internet and mobile technologies.
?There are bad examples of how modern technology is used, for example the selling of types of decoder cards or decoders that access pornographic channels, the spreading of pornographic images or clips on mobile phones via Bluetooth or the Internet, or facilitating access to such clips,? said Suleyman Tuwaijri, director of the religious police in Medina, according to WorldTribune.com.
Under the plan, 375 officers from the Saudi religious police, formally known as the ?Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia,? will receive training in mobile technology and use of various
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Under a plan approved by Saudi King Abdullah, the kingdom?s religious police have been granted oversight authority over various forms of digital media including the Internet and mobile technologies.
?There are bad examples of how modern technology is used, for example the selling of types of decoder cards or decoders that access pornographic channels, the spreading of pornographic images or clips on mobile phones via Bluetooth or the Internet, or facilitating access to such clips,? said Suleyman Tuwaijri, director of the religious police in Medina, according to WorldTribune.com.
Under the plan, 375 officers from the Saudi religious police, formally known as the ?Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia,? will receive training in mobile technology and use of various
Link to full story
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