david999

Hey all,

I plan on taking my PC over with me to Khobar, as it contains all my movies, games etc. Will that be a problem with customs, censorship etc? Would they check what's on the hard drives?

Regards
David

britexpat76

Stick the russian teen porn on a memory stick in your trouser pocket and you will be fine

dubaiguy2011

Politically correct isn't compatible in KSA unless you've the 1482AD/beamisogynistcvnt edition.

Kix

Corrected that for you....

Beakersful

Take a damned good power surge protector! Or it could die a horrible death.

Debowing

Mine just got into Libya yesterday evening---but wasn't chaecked...too bad I had removed all the naughty things before coming here...

dragonladyoz

Our computers/tablets were never checked coming in and out - they always seemed more interested in whether the chocolates had alcohol in them!

Make sure you download a good VPN before you go to get around those annoying censorship issues that you can have.

david999

That's good news as I have TB's of 'uncensored' movies, music, books etc.
But to be on the safe side, I'll disconnect all the drives except for the bootup drive, they'll be none the wiser if they switch it on.

@ Beakersful - Is the power spikes that bad?

A VPN will be on the list of things to do before I go, mainly for torrents, but is the censorship of the Internet that bad?

Thank you guys,
David

Imack1811

It's bad enough in Qatar, which is nowhere near as strict as Saudi, so god knows how much of the Internet will actually be left for you to see where you are heading

Someone told me ( not sure if this is true!) that the film Bruce Almighty is about 30 minutes shorter over here after they had cut all of Morgan Freeman (God in the film)'s bits out!

dragonladyoz

Internet censorship is fickle - things change - what you can get one day is gone the next and then back again two days later...... plus we found some sites blocked in Bahrain or Qatar weren't blocked in Saudi.........and vice versa.

flares

First night in hotel in Riyadh I switched on to find an episode of Entourage plenty of uncensored boobies on show. Chuckled to myself

Desert Dubliner

With laptops today the worst thing that can happen is the AC/DC adaptor going.

Desert Dubliner

Did not even notice much censorship on the net. Also movies are on OSN so no censorship. The only censored items I have come across are stupid stickers in magazines, movies on Saudi airlines and obvious porn sites.

dragonladyoz

I must admit it was an interesting experience watching a 007 movie on Dubai 1 - it was much shorter by the time they edited out all the kissing and bedroom scenes - somehow it just wasn't Bond! No such problems on OSN thankfully!

scot47

Voltage Surge Protectors were standard when I was there.