I was pretty impressed to read in this article that the choke hold on Saudi media would be slackened, if only for the online stuff--if only until the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information finds other ways to censor it.
As an Arab, specifically a Saudi, it's pleasing to see progress like this, when just across the Red Sea, the more liberal Egyptian government recently banned a newspaper after reporting that three prominent actors had been caught in a gay prostitution network.
It's also nice to see the awareness of the online publishers that with this new found freedom come great responsibilities, i.e., source verification and truthful (fact-based) reporting. It's reassuring to know that in the realm of citizen reporting, the differences between East and West are not so stark.
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