[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) partner to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges in the Middle East

[Richard Symonds]

I'm curious: the list of censored topics in KSA (on Wikipedia) seems to be
entirely sexual content. Certainly, the KSA censor that, but do they censor
any articles that are political or similar topics? Forgive if I've misread
the list!

Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Oct 16, 2012 1:15 AM, "Andreas Kolbe" <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Yann
> >
> > It's not a partnership with the government, it's with a telecom company
>
>
>
> Theo, Saudi Telecom was wholly owned by the Saudi government when it was
> founded in 1998. It held monopolies then.
>
> After a partial privatisation in the early 2000s, STC remains 70% owned by
> the Saudi government, with the remainder owned by "domestic investors
> (16.4%), the Public Pension Fund (6.6%) and the General Organisation for
> Social Insurance (7.0%)".[1]
>
> To say that it's not partnership with the Saudi government is a little
> misleading. I am not saying there is anything wrong with it, but surely you
> can understand that there is interest in what exactly the terms of this
> partnership are.
>
> [1]
>
> http://www.telegeography.com/page_attachments/products/website/research-services/globalcomms-database-service/0003/2274/gcd-saudi-telecom-company-stc.pdf
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