Mar 08
18
Unblock Secret Dubai!
So I have been experiencing a complete shutdown of blogspot blogs in the last few days and last night I wondered if it had to do with Secret Dubai’s blog being blocked. SD’s blog is one that I have been reading since before I moved to Dubai and still continue reading because she tells it like it is – about the government hypocrisy, corruption, over-ratedness, and of course, lack of free-press, that is Dubai.
7days had this to say about the blocking of SD’s blog:
Secret Dubai Diary, one of the emirate’s most popular blogs, has been shut down in a move that has upset the many thousands of its readers. The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has decided to block secretdubai.blogspot.com, calling it, “a web site for slander, defamation and vilification against Dubai.”
But for some reason, it seems that in the process of blocking SD’s blog, ALL blogspot blogs have been blocked by my internet service provider, du. Etisalat customers cannot view SD’s blog but CAN access other blog sites. (Note: Dubai has 2 ISP: Du and Etisalat). I think perhaps du didn’t know how to do a one-blog block and just did a blanket block.
In any case, please continue to read SD’s blog here on her mirror site and let’s hope a community of readers and bloggers can help unblock the site again.
Edit 04-16-08: Looks like both blogspot and the mirror for Secret Dubai Diary is now blocked by du as well. But you can click here to subscribe via email or via RSS by inputing this feed address into your RSS reader of choice: http://secretdubai.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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