Communications and Information Technology Commission, CITC is the Saudi communications authority. It was first established under the name of Saudi Communications Commission in accordance with the decision of the Council of Ministers. The name was changed after the Commission was assigned new tasks related to information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

. Since October 2006, CITC has been handling the DNS structure and filtering in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

 in the place of KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an organization established in 1977 as the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology ; in 1985, it was renamed King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.In 1984, it named Abdul Rahman Al-Athel as its...

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Censorship

Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission is responsible for regulating the internet and for hosting a firewall which blocks access to thousands of websites, mainly due to sexual and political content. Access to Megaupload

Megaupload

Megaupload is an online Hong Kong-based company established in 2005 for the use of uploading and downloading files. It includes a video browsing section in the site Megavideo, MegaLive, MegaPix and Megabox as well as a sister company called Megaporn which hosts user uploaded pornographic content...

has been intermittently blocked by the internet authorities in Saudi Arabia. This information is current as of May 23, 2010.