Abu Dhabi, Sep 28 (The National): The ban on the photo-sharing website Flickr was lifted yesterday.
The site, which allows users to upload their pictures for the world to see, had been blocked since 2005, a year after its launch.
Its library of more than five billion photos and videos was deemed in breach of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ban on content “inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE”.
Yahoo!, which owns Flickr, has been in talks with the authority for some time, said Ahmed Nassef, vice president and managing director of Yahoo! Middle East.
He declined to say what Yahoo! had done to have the ban lifted, but a source said it had incorporated a content-filtering system similar to one used in Singapore.