Saudi blocks Blogger
RSF says:
My favorite Saudi blog, Saudi Jeans, seems fine but its domain name is blogspot.com. Blogger.com is where the sites are maintained from, and I see no updates on the site since 3 October. Try proxify.com, guys.
Reporters Without Borders today called on the Internet Services Unit (ISU), the agency that manages Web filtering in Saudi Arabia, to explain why the weblog creation and hosting service blogger.com has been made inaccessible since 3 October, preventing Saudi bloggers from updating their blogs.
“Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that censors the Internet the most, but blog services had not until now been affected by the ISU’s filters,” the press freedom organisation said. “The complete blocking of blogger.com, which is one of the biggest blog tools on the market, is extremely worrying. Only China had so far used such an extreme measure to censor the Internet.”
My favorite Saudi blog, Saudi Jeans, seems fine but its domain name is blogspot.com. Blogger.com is where the sites are maintained from, and I see no updates on the site since 3 October. Try proxify.com, guys.