Do the owners and administrators of a social media website dedicated to beneficial topics bear the sin for religiously forbidden posts (such as music, or pictures of unveiled women) published by subscribers, despite their having set conditions for purposeful content and their attempts to control violations?
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Whoever owns and manages a website and can control its content must prevent and block any posts that contain violations of , such as forbidden music or pictures of unveiled women. Otherwise, they would be complicit in the sin of publishing them.
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Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
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