I have posted a couple of comments Pascal mailed to me, because he can't access any Blogger sites today at all. It is looking like his ISP or other forces in his country Lebanon have censored Blogger. Does anybody know a technical way to get around such a block? (For him, I mean.)
He might have better luck using a public proxy such as http://anonymouse.org...
ReplyDeleteYet let's not be too quick to conclude that Lebanon has censored blogger. ISPs connect to each other using a number of nodes, and route traffic using the most appropriate of those nodes depending on where the recipient is located or what the destination ISP is. So, it is possible for a technical issue on one node to prevent access to just a fraction of the internet.
I've experienced this situation a couple of times here in France...
distributed encrypted web annonymity
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor
http:// before each of the two above
the wikipedia url for another intro than the eff site
Aaah!
ReplyDeleteIt works again today. As they say in acronym-land, "WTF happened there?"
Thanks for the support, everyone. I'll keep your advice in a visible spot for next time.
After some verification, it seems that web-searching for "blogspot + Aoun" yields 11.200 results. So my hypothesis about political causality, although unconfirmed, appears plausible with so many references. (Aoun is the guy who lobbied the US Congress for more than a decade to denounce the syrian stranglehold over Lebanon. The current rotten anti-syrian regime can't stand his guts.)
2 + 2 = reasonable suspicion. As Damien said, I'm not actually accusing anyone until I have Inspector Columbo's final report. ;-)
Malaysia is another nation that's going extremes to crackdown on bloggers. The Malaysian government have given a wrong picture about the bloggers. My old-fashioned parents used o hate blogs until I told them that my biology lecturer posts interesting facts, and videos relelvant to our couses syllabus. anyhow, the Malaysian government tells its people that bloggers show freedom of speech but on the other hand they crackdown and arrest bloggers who expose up their corrupt practises. The government garbs that action as an act to curb people who spread lies and controversies about the nation.
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