Committee to Protect Bloggers

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

newindiress.com reports that India has blocked the blog of “People’s March,” a Maoist magazine, formerly located at www.peoplesmarch.com. It has moved to peoplesmarch.googlepages.com, where the following message appears.
We have moved. Till May 2006, we were maintaining a fairly healthy site www.peoplesmarch.com. But our service provider, was asked to block our website on 15th May 2006. […]

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 […]

Danwei reports today that YouTube is blocked in China and asks if it is due to the 17th Communist Party congress. Can anyone confirm or deny the block?

From Ars Technica.
Savvy Internet fans in the people’s republic have known for a long time, however, that there have been simple ways to get forbidden information. One of those ways was the magical gift of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. The Great Firewall can block specific web sites all it wants, but as long as […]

Search Engine Watch has a list of countries that have banned YouTube, including, oddly enough, Brazil.