[www.keralites.net] Saudi unblocks Facebook

Saudi Facebook block was 'accidental'

Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's most populous state, has denied it intentionally blocked access to popular social networking site Facebook at the weekend.

Access to the site was temporarily blocked on Saturday, after media reports quoted a source at the kingdom's Communication and Information Technology Commission as saying the website had "crossed a line" with the country's conservative values.

However, the agency later said the block was an error.

CITC spokesman Sultan Malik said: "The Facebook blockage was an accidental error which affected some parts of the Kingdom and it resumed its normal operation soon after it was fixed. There are no changes to Facebook in the Kingdom; the site will operate as usual."

Facebook has around 1.5 million users in Saudi Arabia. The social networking site has faced bans in Pakistan, over an international competition to draw the Prophet Muhammad, and in Bangladesh, after a user posted cartoons of the Prophet and of the country's political leaders.

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi-facebook-block-was-accidental--362537.html

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