Pakistan Bans Blogspot

ah..and everything comes back to normalcy after the departure of Bush & Co.

if internet was the solution - it wouldn`t have dawned in Pakistan - and so on.

if one is blocked others would sprout up - this is the privilege we have - arrest one journalist and it produces more jobs for the wandering ones, although for a time being.

everything is to go the Big Brother`s way until everything loses out economic benefit, which it won`t in the near future.

river can`t be stopped, it can be stooped upon and fished. Block one today - hundreds are there and there`s no scarcity of people who would respond - Allah Khair karay ga and there you go - VOILA..

so this (column) is premature..let the tide settle and everything would be clear..Could they stop basant..?
think about it..

Re: # 1-and who sez Orkut can`t be accessed here in the UAE..?

Writer should have checked with some Pakistanis , and should have verified such a tall claim. Infact I am right now viewing My BLOG . at www.blogger.com and seems to have NO PROBLEM , whatsoever.


Keep smiling...

Re: # 2

Really? Then I`m sorely mistaken and I apologize. I was in Dubai for a while, on several different occasions, and couldn`t access Orkut. I heard the same from others. But perhaps it`s also an ISP-specific issue.

Thanks for the correction, and the comment!

Re: # 3

Glad to hear it. Perhaps the problem is slowly getting fixed. As for me and all the folks I know here in Lahore, and the people sporting the ``Don`t Block the Blog`` banner online, they aren`t able to do it.

I`m not meaning to suggest that this block will last. But the fact that there is a block at all gives me great pause.

Thanks.

Re: # 4-excuse me - Orkut is accessible through special means..;)..not the usual way..

although what u have heard is also correct..and what i`m claiming is also true..

Re: # 4-comment`s ur right..at least..

Re: # 6

:) aha.

Well, I was referring to non-special means. Glad you can access it. And very glad we`re both right. :D

hey kaptin bahi..plz leeme know how to access orkut from DXB???

Re: # 8-subservience is tried failure - an individual of stature has to taint the diamond black to fend off the thugs..of baghdad..

Re: # 9-hmm..somebody on the otherside of the table for a deal..?? hmm..

please send in a mail to have the secret shared..not here..lest i don`t want the ISP of UAE to know of this..if the word spreads..

excuse me..

Have they banned anonymizer/shadowsurf or other web proxy services? If not, there`s no point, is there?

Re: # 12

No they haven`t. And you can get them through RSS feed readers as well. There isn`t a point at all. Which is why it`s so perplexing. The consensus among bloggers seems to be that it`s negligence, and that it won`t last, but my point is why do it in the first place? It`s very perplexing.

#13 by kyla on March 5, 2006 9:53am PT


it`s negligence


Or incompetence..

#3 by aquaris on March 5, 2006 4:35am PT



My BLOG . at www.blogger.com


DID you RTFA?


In fact, you can actually post to your own blog in the usual manner, by logging into blogger.com


The blogs on blogger are published on the blogspot.com domain.

truly freedom sometimes comes down so forcefully with its subjectivity tht one is compelled to revise one`s own existence in a `free nation`