Facebook more dangerous than porn sites

The Algerian minister said that social networks, especially Facebook the  most dangerous on the Algerian youth from pornographic websites, saying that blocking these sites require a law because it affects freedom of expression.

And The Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies Huda Pharaoh during a session of the Algerian parliament, that "foreign companies reap billions of dollars annually due to this free service, where the citizen is the item."

She added that "Algerians secrets of personal data and photographs and even phone numbers are exploited and sold to organizations and sometimes terrorist organizations employed suspicious purposes."

She responded to a question posed by a House of Representatives about the reasons for the failure of the government and not to block pornographic sites, saying that the government does not have the legal authority, calling on Parliament to draft a law allowing it to do so, and they can not be touched freely people.

The authority of conscience
and see the young minister (39 years) that no authority higher than the authority of conscience for adults when they decide to surf pornographic sites, noting that the ministry puts the responsibility to protect children from surfing these sites, which provide for connections Algeria this.

Pharaoh confirmed that there are some sites do not fit with the ethics of Algerian society (APS site )

Minister of Post and confirmed that there are some sites do not fit with the ethics of Algerian society, or even with another country, whether Muslim or not, and it comes to human values, "but what hinders the process is the opposition of those control procedures for freedom of expression in Algeria."

Pharaoh was considered that it is unreasonable for the government to withhold or closure of certain sites, "but it requires a concerted effort by thinking and consultation to build a legal ground for monitoring Internet content without exceeding the violation of freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution."

According to the latest report issued by the site "Alexa" to the statistics of thenumber of sites on the Internet visits to countries around the world, Algeria has ranked third in the number of Arab browsing pornographic sites in 2016 after both Egypt and Iraq .

Blocking these sites and still raises social debate between supporters and opponents see as incompatible with the principle of individual freedoms, although Algerie Telecom -mozaa the only official Internet Paljzair- developed programs make it easier for families to block sites in computers in homes to protect children.

Source: Al Jazeera