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Category: BlockedBy Curt on Jun 2, 2008 in Blogspot, Pakistan, Blogger, Blocked | 0 Comments
Indus Asia Online Journal reports that the government of Pakistan has blocked Blogspot, cutting off access to thousands of blogs in the country. It was last reported blocked in Pakistan in September.
Don’t Block the Blog confirms this.
By Curt on Apr 11, 2008 in Brazil, Blocked, Wordpress | 3 Comments
Brazil, which has in the past blocked YouTube and banned a host of video games, has now banned the blog Wordpress.com, and therewith all the blogs that use it, according to Game Politics (via Techdirt). There are 1 million Brazilian blogs alone on this service, according to Terramel, a Brazilian blog. It is apparently, […]
By Curt on Mar 26, 2008 in Yemen, Blocked | 0 Comments
According to the Jawa Report, Yemen has blocked that country’s major blog host.
In a rather Stalinist reaction to growing civil unrest (a half million people demonstrated in South Yemen on Monday), Yemen blocked 1126 Yemeni blogs by blocking the hosting platform Matoob.
A variety of online newspapers and opinion sites were previously blocked. However the […]
By Curt on Mar 25, 2008 in Slide, Blocked, Turkey | 0 Comments
Turkey has banned Slide, the photo widget, according to Venture Beat. It’s another one of those all-too-popular “insulting to the founder” type objections. There were (or weren’t) photos that were (or weren’t) insulting to the founder of modern Turkey (Ataturk).
Slide is speaking to the Turkish government and reaching out to Turkish users. Let’s hope they […]
By Curt on Mar 25, 2008 in Generación Y, Cuba, Blocked, Threatened bloggers | 2 Comments
Yoanni Sánchez’s Generación Y blog has been blocked within Cuba, according to USA Today’s On Deadline blog (via Reuters).
This is the most prominent of the first generation of Cuba’s blogs. It reportedly got 1.2 million visitors, especially after media in the U.S., France and elsewhere started writing about it.
By Curt on Mar 24, 2008 in Filtering, Tibet, YouTube, Blocked, China, Censorship | 0 Comments
Update: Lewis wrote us.
Im in Beijing and Youtube.com is unblocked but veoh.com is blocked. Please check this.
Can anyone else confirm?
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Your website is blocked also but i am using a proxy to get it but it doesnt
work with videos.CNET reports that China has unblocked YouTube. They also ask, did Google have a direct hand in the […]
By Curt on Mar 11, 2008 in Blocked, Iran, Yahoo | 0 Comments
In advance of the March 14 elections there, Iranian authorities have blocked Yahoo there, according to Norooznews (via OpenNet Blog). Yahoo’s search engine, its web mail service Yahoo Mail, and its groups function, Yahoo Groups, have all been blocked. Background, from the International Herald Tribune.
By Curt on Feb 23, 2008 in Pakistan, YouTube, Blocked | 2 Comments
Update: Associated Press (via New TeeVee) reports that Pakistan has removed the block that resulted in a worldwide block of the service. The offending video has been removed, of course. It’s an education to realize that one group of people in one country can deprive the entire world of a communications vehicle.
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Update: In a “near […]
By Curt on Jan 29, 2008 in YemenPortal, Yemen, Free Kareem, Filtering, Blocked | 1 Comment
Update: Sami sends the following note, via FreeKareem.
Today, It is allowed for anyone in Yemen to Access Free Kareem campaign. It seems that Yemeni Authorities had received tens of letters asking for releasing this site.
Unfortunately, they blocked my newest blog. It is bad to know that I could not access it from Yemen, and my […]
By Curt on Jan 17, 2008 in Burma, Free speech, Blogger, Blocked, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 1 Comment
Mizzima reports that the tinhorns in Burma have, through the country’s two ISPs, blocked access to the Blogger.com blogging platform (also known as Blogspot).
In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of […]
