The Indonesian Government in it's knee jerk reaction to the Dutch Islamaphobic movie Fitna blocked Youtube and other filesharing sites, which after one of the quickest "U" turns in history unblocked very smartish.
Things did not end there, it appears that Telkom have blocked sites with "blogspot.com" adresses and although there has been no official statement made it is clear that, if it was "necessary" the voice from the bloggers in Indonesia can be shushed very quickly.
Accordingly, I have started a domain where this blog can be accessed as a link as well as a vehicle for other stuff and nonsenses that I occasionally perpetrate.
It is linked on the left hand column as Views from the East, but can be accessed from http://www.dilligafasia.com
Be kind to me, HTML is a bugger and I only started populating the site on Sunday........ meanwhile, Malaysia this week, Miri to be precise, never been to Sarawak so it will make a nice change.
omg are you serious? blogspot.com blocked in Indo as well?
ReplyDeleteBlogspot.com addresses apear to have been blocked by Telkom, other net providers have not taken this step.
ReplyDeleteIt may be something wrong with Telkoms "filtering" systems or, alternatively, it may be something they have chosen to do for reasons unknown.
It sort of fits in with the Governments plan to eventualy have a system like Singapore, China and the UAE where subversive or pornographic sites are selectively blocked for the greater god of the citizens.
Either way, it sucks!
there's an option on blogger.com which allows you to give your blogspot address a proper domain name. might be useful now!
ReplyDeleteNever noticed that John, bit late now but I will migrate the blog onto the website bit by bit.
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