Internet Filtering...in Dubai?

Just as US corporations pander to America's indigenous 'family-values' crowd, so do firms in Muslim states often compete for those fathers who justifiably believe that their children's sex education will be largely Internet-based. Meanwhile, the conservative and trigger-happy bureaucrat, generally eliciting the shaking of heads from much of political society, also seems to be a recurring motif. From the UAE:

Du [a UAE telecom company] will start to block internet websites with undesirable content from Monday in a move to comply with the new internet management policy issued by the UAE Telephone Regulatory Authority (TRA). A statement issued by du said it will block all content that is not in line with moral, social and cultural values of the UAE.

Then again, in light of Damascus's recent Facebook manoeuvre, perhaps the addition of ten minutes to the journey to the more ribald corners of the Web isn't quite so bad.