<div dir="ltr">Milton,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br>
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</span></span></span>For a different perspective, see
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http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/08/16/us-congress-joins-saudi-arabia-in-net-censorship-extravaganza/</a></div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>A huge fan of your writings. You mentioned in your article that:<br>
<br>"<b>The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia thinks so, and wants to censor it. Not just in their little kingdom but globally, by insisting that ICANN not allow it.</b>"<br><br>Two points here:<br><ul><li>I would have preferred to say "Some Saudi Citizens" (or any other appropriate phrasing) since the comments made do not reflect the opinion of the Saudi government or the entire Saudi population. Why do I say so?.... Because many people in the Arab world barely know anything about the New gTLD program, or better "<b>Do Not Care</b>"!</li>
<li>A small kingdom? I do not think so. The second largest oil producer in the world, the 13th largest country in terms of geography in the world, and a close ally of the USA definitely does not entitle it to be called "a small kingdom". Even more, if it was a "Small Kingdom", the West would have not had strong bonds with it and given it the soft cushion it has refused to give to any other country in the world.<br>
</li></ul>Once the many TLDs that they have commented on - and I have too - are delegated and active, it is a matter of a simple rule on the "Great Saudi Arabian Firewall" (mind you with the term since it is always used for the Chinese Firewall) to block them all.<br>
<br>The Saudi's - and for that matter many Muslims around the world - see these kind of TLDs as violating to the basics of the Islamic religion. Islam rejects pornography, trans-sexuality, gay/lesbianism... and any other form of sexual act that almost every religion in this planet opposes to.<br>
<br>P.S. I am not trying to get into any religious debates here, but I am trying to explain the views and concerns of the comments comming out of Saudi Arabia and many other Arab/Muslim countries. I myself being a father would strongly oppose to my kids being exposed to such TLDs at their tender young age.<br>
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