A prominent Saudi cleric has declared that online conversations between men and women are religiously forbidden and has warned that they may lead to committing sin. According to Saudi daily al-Eqitisadiya, Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Saudi Committee of Senior Scholars, said that chatting online through social networks falls under the ...

A few months ago Irans Filtering Committee decided to block all services offered by Google including but not limited to Gmail and YouTube. Millions of Iranians are using Gmail as their first option for exchanging emails. In that time, this movement by Committee angered many Iranians. Even member of parliaments threatened to summon the IT minister to ...

The 6th International Digital Media Exhibition was inaugurated on October 4 in the capital city of Tehran while Iranian cyberspace users have strongly criticized it. By the slogan of "digital literacy and cultural safety", the exhibition is organized by the Information Technology and Digital Media Development Center of Ministry of Culture and Islamic ...