SAUDI Arabia's top religious cleric
has criticised the social media website Twitter, calling it "a council
for jokesters" and a place for unjust, incorrect messages.
Grand Mufti Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik made his remarks late on Friday during a speech to other Saudi clerics.
Twitter
has been used by youth activists to galvanise protests in the Arab
Spring uprisings, as well as by regional governments seeking to
communicate with the public.
The mufti's remarks come on the same
day that the imam at Mecca's Grand Mosque said people have the right to
express themselves, but must do so cautiously in order to protect the
country's prestige and unity.
news.com.au 24 Mar 2013
An example of a typical view by authorities, that being the authorities are displeased that the herd population has the right to communicate and publish information without government censorship.
Australia is in the forefront of gagging the herd population with its communist dictatorial policies towards free speech.
In Australia not that long ago (in the 1970's) it was illegal to use CB (Citizen Band) radios, where the general populous could use the device to communicate between vehicles, as an example, 'possibly' informing other drivers of police 'speed traps'.
Similarly today internet censorship is a priority in Australian government politics, as well as the (widely published) gagging of the corporate media, which failed on its first public attempt.
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