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Category: BlockedBy 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 […]
By Curt on Dec 10, 2007 in India, Blocked | 0 Comments
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. […]
By Curt on Dec 5, 2007 in Uzbekistan, Filtering, Blocked | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Curt on Oct 18, 2007 in YouTube, Blocked, China | 0 Comments
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?
By Curt on Oct 5, 2007 in Feeds, Blocked, China | 2 Comments
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 […]
By Curt on Oct 1, 2007 in YouTube, Blocked | 1 Comment
Search Engine Watch has a list of countries that have banned YouTube, including, oddly enough, Brazil.
By Curt on Oct 1, 2007 in Citizen journalists, Burma, Blocked, Censorship | 0 Comments
The Guardian’s News Blog had a good list of sources for Burmese news. I’ll try to augment.
Niknayman’s cbox (Blogger in Burma, and associates)
Soneseayar (Burmese blogger outside the country; also has a cbox)
Irrawaddy (Burmese news site in Thailand)
Mizzima (Burmese news agency with offices in India and Thailand)
Ko-Htike (Burmese blogger in London)
By Curt on Sep 29, 2007 in Irrawaddy, Mobile telephones, Text messaging, Citizen journalists, Mizzima, Niknayman, Blocked, Journalists, Burma, KoHtike, Censorship | 0 Comments
Burma has become an object lesson for the power of blogging and, sadly, for the vulnerability of bloggers to the actions of a determined government. Protests began in August and, due to the lack of both independent domestic press and the presence of many international journalists, bloggers did the heavy-lifting in getting the news out.
Burma-based […]
By Curt on Sep 17, 2007 in Bebo, Blocked, Thailand, China | 19 Comments
I read a comment on Mashable that Bebo, the social networking site, has been blocked in China for the last week. Can anyone verify or debunk this? I saw a mention, which looked like it was from a Chinese message board indicating that it’s so.
Update: This has been confirmed.
Update: In the comments, Ania […]
By Curt on Sep 3, 2007 in Secure Computing, SmartFilter, Tunisia, Dailymotion, Blocked | 0 Comments
France-based video sharing site, which was blocked in Tunisia in April, then was available, is apparently blocked again, according to GVA. It is possible that this block is not directed specifically against the company by the Tunisian authorities, but is a result of the imprecision of SmartFilter, the filtering software produced by the U.S. company […]
