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Pakistan joins the list of countries, which have blocked access to Blogger. Greensatya feels that the forthcoming visit of George Bush might be one of the reasons behind this move. If this is the real reason, Bush-haters can claim victory as their collective noise has been heard.
Update: Neha has a detailed post on this at Global Voices Online.
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6 comments
Pratyush
March 2nd, 2006, 8:28 am | #
If this is the real reason, Bush-haters can claim victory as their collective noise has been heard.
Fair point Kaps.
Neha
March 2nd, 2006, 8:41 am | #
The reason is more likely to do with the Danish cartoons controversy. However, the one way around this is to use the nyud block at http://www.blogger.com.nyud.net:8090/.
Nyud works because of the Coral Content Distribution Network. I really doubt that Bush’s visit has anything to do with it. If anything - it’s bad timing. The anti-Bush dissent in Pakistan isn’t very loud online.
The Peace Tribe
March 2nd, 2006, 1:21 pm | #
This could be a problem with the bug-ridden Blogger itself. While Blogger enjoys a 70% market share among the BlogTools, there are several serious bloggers who use other tools like WP, b2evo etc..Then there would be no point in just banning Blogger.
On the same note, we had sent a tip or two to DP on the “Go Back Bush” blog we hosted two days back. Not a single mention about this on DP, though its an unique attempt on Indian blogsphere. A case of DP blacking out Anti-Bush sentiemnts ?
Patrix
March 2nd, 2006, 2:03 pm | #
Peace Tribe, we have no content-based restriction policy. Quality-based restriction is however enforced but we understand that quality is subjective. No personal offense meant to the tip-offs that we don’t feature.
A Traveler
March 3rd, 2006, 5:06 pm | #
Pakistan is blocking blogs because some of the whole cartoon issue.. i think they probably just took out *.blogspot.com instead of going through and blocking individual blogs, which they should have done.. here’s a BBC article about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4771846.stm
drpak
March 5th, 2006, 11:30 am | #
All those interested in resisting this ban, please join the google group created for this purpose. The group is growing rapidly (31 members in it’s 30 hours of existence) and is coordinating efforts to protest the ban in a civilized, firm and unified voice.
We’re organizing at:
http://groups.google.com/group/AGABBIP
Join us and lend us your voice.
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