Kuwait wants RIM to filter BlackBerry traffic, Saudi Arabia testing three servers
By Sean Hollister 
posted August 8th 2010 1:36PM
posted August 8th 2010 1:36PM
posted August 8th 2010 1:36PM
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@Koopa, Fashilona 7asbi allah 3laihom, wzaratna knows nothing about technology in all honesty ... ya rait lw nshof post 3n deratna on engadget eb shay yo3tabar enjaz mo swad wayh.
shoof al7en el ajanb shbegoloon 3nna!
Most western countries now seem to have their own RIM servers. I do not therefore see why the middle eastern countries should not also have them.
Mind you, I think it's silly to be filterinf some of the stuff that are.
teach them about the invention known as deodorant.
oh well , this was old news for us in kuwait , first they said they were gonna block the whole service (about 2 months ago) but then they resorted to just blocking sites
Hahaha! No happy time for you guys!
Well, Kuwait will just have to wait.
3ashet al Kuwait ..
At least Kuwait is honest about the reasons behind the filtering. This is about censorship, not security. Heck, these governments are free to abuse their citizens any way they want, and it's not for RIM to decide what kind of communication should be allowed in a given country... but I'm sure glad I don't live there, and certainly will fight tooth and nail to never set foot in any of these totalitarian regimes. Fight for your rights, people!
@lorax1284 ...and I doubt that this is what the American soldiers who defended Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf War died for: regimes who censor free speech.
@lorax1284
Its easier said the done ... fight for our rights that is :(
@lorax1284
The anarchy disguised as democracy and freedom of speech the US taught you, is that what you mean?
I mean if freedom of speech and democracy teach us that we could do whatever to whomever we want to like bombing Hiroshima and be the world Dictato...I mean the world police for instance, thank you I don't want that kind of freedom.
@KWTLORD I am absolutely correct in questioning the values of other cultures, where people suffer at the hands of the majority or the powerful, where these so-called authorities decide on behalf of others how they should live or what they can do, when these authorities more often than not do NOT follow their own strict doctrine. This is about the few controlling the lives of the many, even when the many object: and to object leads to punitive punishments, incarceration, or murder. Don't tell me not to be critical of "other values" because values like those I describe are horrible and absolutely demand to be challenged.
the whole thing sounds like a typical "rim" job....
This should have expected ......
You people have to learn that there are many people and comunities who have different values than yours.
Learn that porn to some societies are not acceptable and people want to maintane there values.
Same as the guns issue in the states and many values which differ from one place to the other.
@Waleedy
Everyone is entitled to their own views. Let that society maintain its values, no one is disputing that. Enforcing it at the national level is stupidity, though. Not just stupidity, but its wrong.
@mmurfin87 It kind of reminds me of the separation between church and state. In terms of religion, Christianity is in the vast majority of the U.S., but thankfully most of the time, national law is not purely influenced by this fact. That's one of the few things I really admire about the Nordic countries, their ability to be agnostic when facing political vs. religious issues.
@Waleedy It's a simple statement that "knowledge is power". If the government controls the knowledge, they maintain the power. That's what this is about, and it's less about security OR morality than it is about keeping people ignorant, to some degree.
I am a natural born American, and do not own any shares in RIM. I believe that this is wrong, but I haven't any position to tell anyone how to govern their people, or a company to run its business. It's sad, but there's nothing that I can do. Live and let live, no?