“Protecting” Lebanese Websites

Abdel-Hadi Mahfouz, head of the National Audio-visual Media Council, on why they want to build a database of Lebanese websites:

Our recent decision to organize the online media will only protect websites from a future government ruling against them … if they are not registered or within our database, the government could easily ban them,

It’s like asking us to walk into a prison so that they could protect us from murder.