The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) claimed that the ban is unfeasible for many reasons, including the difficulty of maintaining an inventory of millions of sites to be blacklisted. [...] The MCIT also stated that the government has worked with service providers in the past to promote options for families to block inappropriate sites at home. [...] Underneath the passport is a written message stating, “I’m with the uprising of women in the Arab world because for 20 years I wasn’t allowed to feel the wind in my hair and my body.” Facebook initially stated that the suspension was an error. [...] The group has criticized the decision as a form of censorship, possibly motivated by repeated complaints from those they describe as “fundamentalists and misogynists” who are upset with the nature of the photos. [...] The protest, which sought to oppose a change in the electoral law that would reduce the number of parliamentary candidates for which a citizen can vote for from four to one, was considered the largest in the nation’s history.
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