I believe that having a proxy has a good side and a bad side. Its important to have a proxy server to ban sites that has inappropriate issues. The UAE government has advocated Internet censorship via a proxy service maintained by Etisalat. The proxy refuses access to URLs requested if they are on a list of banned sites or if a content check of the site by the proxy server turns up objectionable material. In …showed first 75 words of 290 total…

…showed last 75 words of 290 total…about the bad side of having a proxy server is that the Emirates Internet proxy in the UAE caches web pages that are requested through it, and this can become a problem for webmasters who have content that is continuously being updated. The problem is when you have a page which is updated each week, but the emirates proxy displays a month old version of the web page which doesn't show you the updated page.