{"id":30691,"date":"2014-03-21T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=30691"},"modified":"2014-03-21T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:21:03","slug":"social-media-defeating-saudi-war-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/technology-in-the-middle-east\/social-media-defeating-saudi-war-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Defeating Saudi &#8216;War on Pornography&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/technology-in-the-middle-east\/social-media-defeating-saudi-war-pornography\/attachment\/social-media-logotype-background\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30695\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30695\" alt=\"Social Media Logotype Background\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/social_media_0-e1395393520578.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/social_media_0-e1395393520578.jpg 650w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/social_media_0-e1395393520578-145x77.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia believes it has a problem with Internet pornography and is trying to do something about it, <i>Saudi Gazette<\/i> reports. Four government agencies are tasked with trying to block or at least rein in various media channels \u2014 including social media \u2014 to better protect Saudi citizens. They see it as a losing battle, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20140319199099\">Four govt agencies struggling to control porn on social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JEDDAH \u2014 Four government agencies \u2014 the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), Ministry of Interior, Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) and the Audiovisual Commission \u2014 are facing problems censoring porn accounts that pop up on social media websites. Unlike pornographic websites, which can be blocked directly, social media websites such as Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr are harder to block since officials have to target individual accounts, Makkah daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent statistics released by the Social Clinic, a social media agency and consultancy headquartered in Jeddah, the number of users on the microblogging website Twitter in the Kingdom has reached 5 million while the Kingdom\u2019s Facebook users numbered around 7.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>An informed source in the Ministry of Culture and Information said the National Center for Youth Research, an affiliate of King Saud University, will discuss the issue of pornographic accounts on social media websites with the Audiovisual Commission and come up with a plan to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROSSROADS ARABIA: The authorities in the Kingdom admit that they&#8217;re fighting a losing battle to stem a flood of pornography <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":30695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,482,10,63,9],"tags":[1209,18172,17840,17456,18171,18173,18174,18170,17282,18275,3882,16517,143,16806,17283,166,17284,16759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30697,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691\/revisions\/30697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}