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Posted by timothy on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:32PM from the seems-a-bit-hamfisted dept.

Bashar writes "A Bahraini newspaper reported today that Bahrain government, following the block of nude sites, have instructed all ISPs to block the Google Earth service, making them one of the few countries worldwide to block a major Google service that is used around the globe, and proving very effective. Here is the same news source, translated by Google to English."

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Translate to English (Score:3, Funny)

by neonprimetime ( 528653 ) writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:38PM (#15861286)

Good thing they translated it to english, or else I was screwed!

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Re:Censor (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:39PM (#15861290)

According to this map [google.com], the world is flat.

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Re:Censor (Score:3, Funny)

by Pulse_Instance ( 698417 ) writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:42PM (#15861310)

apparently the world is flat and repeating...

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They can relax; I know what they're worried about: (Score:5, Funny)

by The_REAL_DZA ( 731082 ) writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:43PM (#15861314)

They're worried about someone using Google Earth to look right smack down on any nude beach in the world. They can relax; anyone who tried it would get massive headaches from the eyestrain because the resolution just isn't there. Not that I tried to do that or anything...

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what's up with Bahrain? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:43PM (#15861320)

They block web porn and Google Earth, but tolerate Michael Jackson? Oh yeah, I fogot he was acquitted...

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Re:They can relax; I know what they're worried abo (Score:2, Funny)

by Rude Turnip ( 49495 ) writes: <valuation.gmail@com> on Monday August 07, 2006 @05:06PM (#15861529)

Unfortunately the only people on a nude beach large enough to see from a satellite are, well, large.

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Re:Censoring FunLand (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 07, 2006 @05:38PM (#15861757)

What they don't want you to see:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=k&ll=26.234 451,50.599251&spn=0.003012,0.005032 [google.com]

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