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Category: BloggerBy 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 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 Nov 14, 2007 in Anti-Free Speech Laws, Blogger | 1 Comment
According to Law.com, a judge in Manhattan has ruled that Google, the ISP of a blogger critical of a school board, is under no obligation to disclose the name of the blogger, known as Othormom. The ruling, based on the details of the complaint against the blogger, are not necessarily going to further establish blogging […]
By Curt on Oct 17, 2007 in Google, Blogger | 0 Comments
Google has closed down the blog of Serbian neo-Nazi, Novosadjanin Goran Davidovi?. I just checked it and the message said, “This blog is in violation of Blogger’s Terms of Service and is open to authors only”. Blogger/Google is a private company, but the tendency to cinch up on weird thought is troubling. It certainly doesn’t […]
By Curt on Sep 29, 2007 in Burma, Blogger, Censorship | 2 Comments
The other post was getting too long, so I’m starting a second.
As I said at the end of Pt. 1, the only blogger I can find inside Burma still posting is Niknayman, who is posting via cbox, a “tagboard” comment box. (I’ve installed one in our sidebar.) Here’s Niknayman’s Burmese cbox and here’s Niknayman’s […]
By Curt on Sep 14, 2007 in Pakistan, Blogger, Censorship | 3 Comments
From Don’t Block the Blog:
It has being widely reported throughout Pakistan that access to the entire blogspot.com domain has yet again been blocked in Pakistan. For about four months (since May, 2007) Google fortunately had changed the IP address of its Blogspot servers. The new IP addresses were not demarcated as prohibited by the censorship […]
By Curt on Aug 31, 2007 in China Telecom, RSS, Feedburner, Blogger, China | 0 Comments
According to Global Voices Advocacy, China Telecom has blocked feeds from the popular FeedBurner service. If you use China Telcom in China, you will not be able to reed the RSS feeds generated by FeedBurner.
Moon-Blog, who has done a traceroute from China to check the block, found that the traceroute failed at the backbone level […]
By Curt on Aug 30, 2007 in Hacked, Blogger | 13 Comments
Update: Three hours of sleep is not your friend. I had a very old Slashdot posting. (Thanks, Anil.)
According to BBC News, Blogger has been hacked.
Google’s Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs.
The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a […]
