Iraq’s Al-Sudani orders review of IMDb and SoundCloud blockings

Shafaq News/ On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani directed the Ministry of Communications to review the blocking of IMDb and SoundCloud websites.

In November, the Ministry of Communications blocked the IMDb website due to "inappropriate and immoral" content, the Director General of Al-Salam Company, a Ministry of Communications subsidiary said. “The site was blocked for promoting degrading content, including pornographic films and immoral pages.”

According to a document obtained by Shafaq News Agency, “PM Al-Sudani instructed the Ministry of Communications to reconsider blocking the websites and present such decisions to the Council of Ministers before implementation.”

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