In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a [...]
Pakistanis don’t need to be told how much it can hurt to be at the receiving end of a censorship on their own blog, we sadly have had a massive blockade on the entire Blogspot.com cordoning off more then 10 million blogs for over 11 months and counting. Its sad to note that a [...]
On Saturday 30th of September the Pakistani blogging community suddenly woke up to see that both proxy servers Pkblogs and Inblogs were out of commission and displayed a server error on their page.
When the Don’t Block the Blog team immediately contacted the owners of domains (Yasir and Naveed Memon) and were told that [...]
Sept 2nd 2006, The Government of Pakistan has dealt yet another severe blow to the Internet community in Pakistan, as it has now created a body constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology which would examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material and block them off in Pakistan.
It [...]
After exactly 18 days of true Internet freedom, Pakistan is yet again subjected to a total blackout of the entire Blogspot domain, at precisely 3:00pm (PST) reports have continued to pour in that Blogspot has become inaccessible to the users in Pakistan, although now official statement has been issue d in the regard but a [...]
In another astonishing move by the Government of Pakistan it appears that the website http://codex.wordpress.org where exists the help and documentation files of the ever popular Content Management System - Wordpress have been blocked for all users and developers in Pakistan. This can be considered as a severe blow to the promotion of the [...]
The PTA has yet again decided to unblock all blogs located on the blogspot domain, we proceed with caution and simply watch and see if this is a permanent change or just a temporary relief till they resume the blocking all over again.
Attached is a Trace Route of a Blogspot Blog that verifies the unblocked [...]
In light of the recent blogspot ban in India, the blogging community in Pakistan would like to present as a gift to the Indian blogging community a small script that can be inserted into their websites which converts all Blogspot links into a URL utilizing the proxy servers of pkblogs.com
Credit goes out to Adnan [...]
Yasir Memon & Naveed Memon have come yet again to save the blogging community from the douldrums to have launched Inblogs.net which is similar to pkblogs but more suited for the Indian traffic.
(July 18th, 2006) - Update: It seems that the authorities in India have also decided to enforce a blanket ban on Indian blogs. The Don’t Block The Blog team strongly support the rights of all Indian bloggers and the cause of free speech. The concerned authorities should lift this unfair ban as it cannot be [...]
