According to a report prepared by the Herdict project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the United Arab Emirates ranks 11th in the world among the countries most often blocking access to popular websites on the Internet.
The purpose of the Herdict project is to obtain and analyze information about the ease of user access to various Internet resources around the world. "At 11 a.m., June 12, 2009, users from the United Arab Emirates reported that 509 different web pages were inaccessible," Herdict project statistics said. - "China is the most frequently mentioned country when it comes to web censorship. Among the countries of the Council for the Cooperation of the Arab States in the Persian Gulf (GCC), Saudi Arabia takes the 4th place in terms of strict censorship, and Bahrain takes the 10th place "
A fact worthy of particular attention in the report is that Western countries are equally vigilant about the prohibition of certain websites. So, Germany takes the 2nd place in the list, the USA - 3rd, France - 7th, Australia - 8th, and Great Britain - 9th.
