While not as draconian as in countries like China or Iran, censorship of certain materials is carried out in the UAE. Try opening the websites for the men’s titles FHM or Maxim here, and you’ll find they’re blocked, even though the magazines themselves are available in the UAE (with some parts of photographs blacked out).
I was reminded of the UAE’s censorship policy this weekend when we went to see the film The Wolf of Wall Street at the cinema.
In total, 45 minutes of content was deemed unsuitable and cut from Martin Scorsese’s film. In places, it didn’t even make sense!
Ugh we had the same thoughts! I hoped MAYBE it would at least be coherent, but it was just plain bad (the editing – not the film/story).
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So interesting you posted this as this just came up in my newsfeed on FaceBook an hour or so ago…http://www.upworthy.com/wow-i-bet-this-map-would-be-banned-in-some-countries?c=ufb2
Thanks for that link MsC -very interesting! Another film that was really censored here was Friends with Benefits – in fact, there didn’t seem to be any ‘benefits’ at all!