Yemen government censorship-challenged

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    Date: 
    17 August 2009

    SANA'A, Aug. 16 —The Yemeni government's ability to filter "offensive" content from the internet could be weakened as the US-based software developer Websense has taken action and blocked Yemen's ISPs from receiving updates to their "block lists."

    The basis of the decision is a breach of Websense's policy not to sell its service to "governments or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that are engaged in any sort of government-imposed censorship."