Mideast Regimes Use US Software to Censor Web

Behind Middle Eastern governments’ censorship of the Web, an uncomfortable reality—US products help do the dirty work. Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia use filtering programs by McAfee; other US and Canadian firms have sold Web-filtering technology to Yemen and Qatar, among other countries, the Wall Street Journal reports. The…

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Mideast Regimes Use US Software to Censor Web

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