One of the most frustrating things is having a full ISP blocked just because of a single questionable item. An example is the blocking of http://members.iinet.net.au/ which is a hosting service provided to the users of an internet service provider in Australia called iinet. Now I cannot view the images hosted at this blog because
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Blocked in Saudi: An Australian ISP hosting site
Blocked in Saudi: Vimeo video service
The online video site, Vimeo, was blocked by for over a month now by Internet.gov.sa. This is an excerpt from Vimeo’s Wikipedia page: Vimeo allows only user-created videos, of a “friends and family” nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user can be uploaded. As usual, you can
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Blocked in Saudi: Blogspot images
Google’s Blogspot service offers free blog hosting and management. The annoying thing is that images there are blocked for no reason. Another one of those “Block everything because of a few bad things”. For example, this post from the Google Operating System blog, an unofficial Google blog, this image is blocked for no reason. And
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Squidoo.com blocked in Saudi Arabia
For no known reason, Squidoo.com is blocked. I would urge everyone to go to this form and fill it so we can get it unblocked as soon as possible. As for what to type in the reason for unblock, you could use the following sentence taken from Wikipedia: Squidoo is a website designed to make
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STC and the big lie
Well, STC has done it again, after announcing free internet access in the “news” they actually charge for it. Misleading advertisement if you ask me. This is reported by a friend of mine who is at Mina right now. Before I travel to Makkah I stc announced that they are going to provide free internet
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