Does the following remind you the forum moderators take on recent events taking place in this forums ( banning of members and deletion of thread without proper cause).???
Ok, I had opposition activists and journalists arrested. So what? Should a monarch like me give up total control of the media? That is the price of maintaining the dynasty at the head of the kingdom. Invoking the security argument to crack down on dissident opinion, and its expression, is the House of Saud‘s secret way of maintaining stability, our own and the country’s.
Journalists practice self-censorship? Good. The role of a journalist is to reproduce the instructions of the information ministry. The weather forecast is the only thing in the news that can be trusted? We are lucky that the temperature in Riyadh is 50 degrees all year round. Foreign correspondents are regularly accompanied by ministry officials? This is for their own safety.
Internet filtering has been stepped up since January 2011? Access to hundreds of thousands of pages has been blocked? This is to preserve social order, and also the welfare of Saudi citizens. My subjects are encouraged to report any disparaging information that might pollute “my” Internet. There is so much of it out there.
