YouTube joins Flickr and Boing Boing on the "banned in Dubai" list.
Popular video sharing site YouTube is now banned in Dubai. Boing Boing has been banned in several countries including Dubai and the United Arab Emirates for several months. One anonymous Boing Boing reader in the UAE sent Boing Boing this letter:
"And its finally happened… I knew the day was not far…. :(The sole ISP in this country, which happens to be owned by the government has blocked boingboing.net Apparently boingboing is disseminating information that is " inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates. " See attached/hotlinked screenshot.
Please email me so if you post this on boingboing, so I can VPN to the office back home and read about this on boingboing… Till then I guess am stuck with fark.com which am sure is next. :(
PS - Please remove all personally identifiable information from the screenshot, cause I don’t want to end up in jail. Yes they do put people in jail for attempting/bypassing their proxy."
When you try to visit one of these sites, you see the message below or something similar:
Article on BoingBoing
Article on chrisdeclerico.com
Posted: July 28th, 2006
at 7:19pm by Black Ock
Categories: myninjaplease,life,crime
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