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DUBAI Dubai International Film Festival chairman Abdulhamid Juma has since 2006 steered the Middle Eastern event into the mainstream using Hollywood glitz and glamor to bolster its global profile while putting Arab filmmaking at its heart.

He has navigated the festival through tough times and political upheaval in the region, while facing down questions of interference and outside pressures created by mounting an uncensored event in an Islamic state.

"We are proud we dont have any censorship at this festival,"Juma told The Hollywood Reporter. "You have to make sure you respect the audience and, as long as you dont surprise them, that is okay."

Juma said the festival introduced a system of content warnings for each film a more detailed descriptive version of the MPAA ratings system to help people make their own judgment call.

"People here don't necessarily understand the age ratings that they have in America,"Juma explained. "So we have extra ratings. We have a 15 + category and we will tell the audience that the film contains violence or bad language. Or [films] for [people] over 18 would say 'contains nudity or scenes of a sexual nature'."

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The Saudi Audiovisual Commission has recently announced that they will be monitoring and censoring visual content on YouTube. The commission will require subscribers to obtain a permit that clarifies certain regulations and conditions. Many Saudi youth have expressed their discontent and rejection of the idea, arguing that it will limit the content that is available for them on the Website. Dr. Riyadh Najm, chairman of the Saudi Audiovisual commission, explained in a phone interview that was aired in YaHala show on Rotana Khalijiah that the aim of the permit is to find suitable opportunities for talented Saudi youth who produce their own shows on social media and to educate them about the rules and regulations that are suitable for the Saudi society. Of course there are certain companies who are using the social media site, but they are not our priority for the time being, we are focusing on enhancing and improving the regulars and individual users and will begin monitoring their content, he said. The commission does not care bout subscribers; our concern is about content and thats the only thing we want to monitor, to ensure it abides by our cultural and religious rules, he added. I am sometimes shocked that some music videos are blocked and we are denied access to them, even though there is no reason for them to be blocked, said twitter subscriber Sarah Kunaji. I wish they would concede to the fact that most Internet users are educated people who know right from wrong, so there is no need for over protection, she added. The decision to censor content will limit the freedom of Saudi YouTubers, according to Hassan Mesaed, another twitter subscriber. We use social media to share our opinions about different subject including social and political ones. Print media has limited freedom of speech and we can never know the whole truth from these traditional outlets, he said, adding, This will definitely suffocate us because we got a taste of how to speak and hear other people through the YouTube shows without worrying about facing censorship. Meanwhile, Ahmed Al-Zahrani, YouTube subscriber, said, Things are not clear to YouTube subscribers. The statement from the chairman is not clear to many of us, as we still need to know who will need the permit. Is the permit for new subscribers or all Saudi subscribers? How are they going to monitor this? What are the new rules that we need to follow? he wondered.

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Published: December 9, 2013 (Issue # 1789)

Schoolchildren in the city of Krasnodar will not be able to watch a puppet theater performance of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" this year. Bureaucrats at the Federal Mass Media Inspection Service put an 18+ label on the show. The reason: In the opera, one of the heroines wants to kill herself.

Age restrictions on access to information, including Internet sites, have been in place for more than a year in the country. But until now they had not been applied to classical works of literature and art. Soon this might change. On Dec. 4, the Federal Mass Media Inspection Service presented a project called "The Concept of Informational Security for Children." Among its stipulations is a ban that would keep minors from watching on the Internet classical works of art that include images of the nude body in any form, and anything that might be considered erotic.

Censorship would also extend to works of literature in which the characters use alcohol and drugs or commit crimes, or in works where there are "statements destructive to the social institution of the family."

A more radical proposal in the project forbids "the depiction or description of mishaps, accidents or catastrophes" in television and radio news shows before 9 p.m. If this becomes law, daytime news shows will revert to the Soviet standard of "all day, all good news."

Teenage morality has become the idee fixe of lawmakers and bureaucrats for the last year or so. They passed a homophobic law forbidding "homosexual propaganda" supposedly to "protect children" and are using the same argument to step up censorship on the Internet.

Censorship on the Russian Internet has existed for a long time and is handled by several agencies: the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Drug Control Service and even the Federal Consumer Protection Service. These agencies draw up a list of sites to be blocked by the providers. These lists contain thousands of sites and pages.

A glance at the list of "extremist" materials on the Justice Ministry site shows that "care for children" is a smokescreen for politics. You can find just about anything on the list, from "Mein Kampf" and videos of Islamic fundamentalists to sites of the Jehovah's Witnesses, unregistered political parties and opposition blogs.

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