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JCMach1

(27,575 posts)
Tue May 22, 2012, 05:47 AM May 2012

Dubai cyber cops gag Facebook, Twitter accounts

Even worse, the internet companies went along with it...

Dubai’s cyber cops have shutdown a number of abusive or defamatory Facebook and Twitter accounts this year, UAE newspaper The National reported on Monday.

The number of online crimes investigated by Dubai Police soared by 124%, from 266 in 2010 to 596 last year, the newspaper added.

There have already been 179 cases investigated in the first quarter of 2012.

Facebook and Twitter agreed to close the 15 accounts, three last week, following a series of online police patrols, the report added... http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/dubai-cyber-cops-gag-facebook--twitter-accounts.html;_ylt=Ahy.OR_42n6l58rOv1yxOeq_auR_;_ylu=X3oDMTU0ODYxaHJtBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEbWl0A01vc3RQb3B1bGFySG9tZU1peGVkTGlzdARwa2cDMDVhZjQwNjktMzY1My0zZDM1LWE1YmYtNTg2OGE0Nzg5MzZlBHBvcwM5BHNlYwNNZWRpYUJMaXN0TWl4ZWRNb3N0UG9wdWxhckNBVGVtcAR2ZXIDZWYwZmVmNDEtYTMyMi0xMWUxLWI3ZTctOTdlMzU4ZTI4N2E1;_ylg=X3oDMTJqN2QzdHFnBGludGwDeGUEbGFuZwNlbi1hZQRwc3RhaWQDZTZhZGIzOGEtMjQ1My0zZTI5LWEyMmQtZjkzMmYxOGEwNDZiBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdl;_ylv=3
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Dubai cyber cops gag Facebook, Twitter accounts (Original Post) JCMach1 May 2012 OP
With climate change, peak oil and all the other massive problems we've got, Systematic Chaos May 2012 #1
Exactly... JCMach1 May 2012 #2

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
1. With climate change, peak oil and all the other massive problems we've got,
Tue May 22, 2012, 05:58 AM
May 2012

that shit sewer of a country won't be around for all that much longer, anyway; at least, not in its present ostentatious state.

There you go, you fucks. Try censoring that.

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