Talk:Bahá'í Faith in the United Arab Emirates

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[edit] Internet service provider

Smkolins, this is a great article. I read through it and think it is put together fairly well. There was just one thing that I would like to discuss. The last sentence of the article says:

However, the country's sole Internet service provider, Etisalat, sometimes block websites relating to the Bahá'í Faith.

Etisalat is no longer the sole provider. A new provider, du, was created in 2006. Please see Communications in the United Arab Emirates#Duopoly for a quick overview. But, I am unsure if du also blocks websites relating to Bahá'í. I just thought I should inform you of this. I am not sure how you would like to change the wording to include this information. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 03:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Quite right - I saw something about du as a telco but now see it's an ISP. The citation about filtering is older than du coming along(2005). There is mention of the filtering in the State Dept. reference but it's vague. Hmmm.... wording....
However, the country's long term Internet service provider, Etisalat, sometimes block websites relating to the Bahá'í Faith. The newest ISP, du, was created in 2006 and it's unclear what it's filtering practices are.
What do you think? The Dupoly link above mentions some filtering but nothing Baha'i specific.-- (talk) 03:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
hmmm on further thought... However, the country's long term Internet service provider, Etisalat, sometimes block websites relating to the Bahá'í Faith. The newest ISP, du, has been ordered to do similar filtering. See Communications in the United Arab Emirates.
-- (talk) 04:04, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Those two sentences sound akward. In the second one, it says "... has been ordered to do similar filtering." But, there is no source for that and I doubt we can get it. Sometimes in the UAE there is selective self-censorship because there are no definitive laws against certain things. So maybe, du does block Bahá'í-related websites, but not because it is ordered to do so. But, we have no way of finding this information. So, how about saying:
However, the country's primary Internet service provider, Etisalat, sometimes blocks websites relating to the Bahá'í Faith.
We can just leave out whether du does it or not and only mention Etisalat just because there is a source for it and because it is the largest provider. It that okay? I would also like to recommend leaving a message on User:MMuzammils's talk page. This editor seems to have some knowledge on the issue of censorship in the United Arab Emirates and may be able to help you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 06:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)