Blog Platforms, Proxies Blocked in Uzbekistan
By Curt on Dec 5, 2007 in Uzbekistan, Filtering, Blocked
According to Transitions Online/neweurasia, blogging has become difficult in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan due to governmental blocking of platforms.
The only blog platform that is active in the country is Livejournal. Though the main page of Wordpress is accessible, the blogs on this platform are not accessible. Blogspot was also blocked for a long time, but recently it was unblocked. Maybe because there are almost no Uzbek blogs on Blogspot platform.
Access to Internet cafes is also restricted, according to an article in International War & Peace Reporting.
Visitors to internet cafés around the country say they have to submit a written list of web addresses they have visited, and administrators also demand to see any material that a customer plans to write onto a memory stick. Others say the USB ports for memory sticks and other storage devices have been removed from computers, while word-processing packages have been tampered with to block toolbar buttons such as “copy”, “save” and “send”.
Proxy servers are blocked in the country as well.
