[governance] Halal Search Engine

[Babatope Soremi]

I concur with Milton on this. Perhaps its not funny but the idea of closed
communities is not new nor fresh having been around in different shades for
quite a while

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>  There are millions of "closed communities" on the Internet. The right to
> establish customised and special applications for your own idiosyncratic
> community is as inviolable as (indeed, part of) the right to freedom of
> association and freedom of expression.
>
>
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> *From:* Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, September 04, 2009 2:08 PM
> *To:* governance at lists.cpsr.org; Meryem Marzouki
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] Halal Search Engine
>
> Hello,
>
> It is not amusing. This could inspire other religious groups to start
> Kosher search engines, satvic search engines ?? Such divisions could create
> closed Internet communities.
>
> Usually, Internet communities are specialized groups that do not restrain
> or prohibit the members of the community from being a part of any other
> community; religious communities with a restrained attitude could emerge to
> be communities that restrain or influence (if not prohibit) its members from
> being a part of other communities.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Meryem Marzouki <marzouki at ras.eu.org>wrote:
>
>> Very funny indeed. I'm eagerly waiting for the www.iamharam.com search
>> engine (the domain name is still free BTW). But after all, simply a
>> targetted form of blocking: isn't blocking all about "unethical" websites,
>> whatever the "ethic" reference?
>> But what is *really* clever with this is the possibilities
>> of really well targeted advertisement.
>>
>>  Le 4 sept. 09 à 10:26, Shahzad Ahmad a écrit :
>>
>>    Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Do you know something about this "HALAL" Search Engine...
>> www.iamhalal.com
>>
>> It seems that now cyberspace is heading towards religious divisions
>> also... This search engine only wants to focus Muslim Internet Users.
>> Couldn't figure out that who is behind it?
>>
>>
>> They claim to be blocking ALL "unethical" websites... I reckon a new
>> interesting form of blocking..isn't it? I also feel that this search engine
>> wants to develop their business "using" religion :)
>>
>> It is very funny... they have somehow arranged 3 levels of searches being
>> Haram... Don't know the logic behind it though as how they decided these
>> levels. Level 3 is the serach at top most level... which they think is
>> really really haram.
>>
>> For example, put "Sex" in the search area, it is haram at level 3 (BTW how
>> "sex" can be haram ;)). If you search "Penis", it is at Level 2 of being
>> haram and "Breasts" are also at level 2 ;))) See for yourself, am not
>> attaching the screen shots :)
>>
>> Would really love to hear your thoughts on this... particularly, if
>> someone know that how will it work...and who is behind it?
>>
>> best wishes
>> Shahzad
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