Tuesday, June 05, 2007
OMG
Thanx Basso and Robster for verifying that my blog is still out there. I just visited it by proxy. No problems. But it also means I and everybody else in Thailand probably still don't see the blog. Weird. Could I actually be censored? C'mon now. That was a joke you guys. Cut it out already! Flip the switch, value=true, give me a break...
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A very quick Google gave me this:
" Significant efforts have been made in Thailand to oppose sites that are representing illegal activities. Activities such as gambling, drug usage and pornography are strictly banned, using DNS control in Thailand and, more effectively, a transparent proxy. This makes the website appear to be inaccessible. Also, the government has banned sites that discuss circumventing Internet censorship." (http://psiphon.civisec.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=328&sid=84eab8e3e0da2f0da42184d0a4795459)
And also:
"All end-users' http traffic is normally run through transparent proxies and filtered for indecency, criticism of the royal family or government, inconvenient parts of foreign or domestic history, and so on. This sometimes causes outages or performance problems. When censorship proxies go down, port 80 becomes useless. Sites like slashdot may also become unaccessible for long periods when they try to block attackers who are being routed through the same proxy. Sites are sometimes censored by mistake, when filtering patterns are too broad for example. There is no recourse against this and email to the censor is not read as a matter of policy. It's not always possible to tell if a site is blocked or not reachable for technical reasons."
(http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Thailand#Network_connectivity)
Well, at least you seem to be censored in China:
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
Then again, (warning: self promotion ahead) even my latest little venture MyGigs seems unable to get the approval of China's civil servants in charge of what's good and what's not for the general public...
Yeah, well I guess my plea for mercy worked, 'cause starting today I can see the blog in my browser like nothing ever happened. Thnx for the info ook :)
And mygigs... yeah, all that rock and roll: that's gonna make them those youngsters wear long hair and protest and stuff. I'm not surprised :)
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