Deliberate blocking, “accidental” blocking and filtering all pose threat to online free expression

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    20 October 2008

    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about online free expression in the United Arab Emirates following recent comments by leading Internet sector officials. The spokesman for the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), which oversees the EAU’s Internet, said on 17 October that the authority was considering “deliberately blocking” access to part of the social networking website Facebook.