268 ‘Why Bahrain Censored Google Earth’
This is circulating around the Gulf over e-mail. A correspondent in the Gulf who follows these things closely says this is why Bahrain blocked Google Earth.
Worth looking at, despite the big file.
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Teehee. A whole lot of governments are touchy about Google Earth, the Indian prez actually made a speech about how it was a threat to national security because it revealed classified military installations…
But then, the Gulfies are weird about the web – you can BlueTooth someone your phone number in a mall, hire hookers of any nationality, live a debauched life in high-rises and bars, but heaven forbid you should try to get an honest-to-goodness date via Match.com or look at vacation pictures on Flickr…or the Colbert Report on YouTube.
Comment by SP — September 22, 2006 #
This is fantastic! I hope somebody google-maps those NDP guys’ properties here in Egypt too.
Comment by Hossam — October 6, 2006 #
[…] On September 21st, Elijah Zarwan filled us in on a possible reason Google Maps was threatening to the Bahrani government. He linked to an amazing 45 page PDF which uses imagery from Google Earth to ask uncomfortable questions about land allocation in Bahrain. Does it make sense for Bahrain to be “reclaiming” land from the ocean, when so many large pieces of land in the island nation have been granted to members of the ruling family? […]
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[…] About two months ago, I posted a link to a .pdf compiling satellite imagery of Bahraini royal palaces from Google Earth sent to me by a Gulf-based correspondent who said this was why Bahrain had briefly blocked Google Earth. By way of a circuitous trail of links, and thanks in part to an unusual interest in Bahrain because of that country’s parliamentary elections, that link wound up on Boing Boing. […]
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[…] – Bahrani activists using Google Maps to document land use. An anonymous Bahrani activist created a set of maps, distributed by PDF, which highlighted cramped urban neighborhoods and contrasted their size to palaces built for members of the ruling family. The fact that Bahrain responded by (briefly) blocking access to Google Maps suggests that the government found the document troubling and wanted to prevent other activists from doing similar sorts of GIS-based protest. […]
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