Comments on: One more site blocked in Bahrain

By: Aftaab

Aftaab — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:10:02 +0000

There’s always the shadowsurf anonymous proxy, the secret source anonymous proxy and the other free anonymous proxies for bypassing blocks. I learnt this trick at work, since we couldn’t install any software on the computers yet we needed to access blocked sites (for research, honest!) Taking formal permission to unblock sites took upto two hours, since ours was a large organisation.

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By: Chan’ad Bahraini » Blog Archive » Blocking spree

Chan’ad Bahraini » Blog Archive » Blocking spree — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:19:42 +0000

[...] When fellow blogger Mahmood wrote about the BCHR block, he coyly asked “who’s next?” And sure enough his request was granted. Mahmood’s Den is now among the blocked sites. The announcement caused the number of hits to hits site to triple also. [...]

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:48:21 +0000

done!

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By: Salman Al-Rahma

Salman Al-Rahma — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:25:52 +0000

Mahmood says:

But then one must ask the question… who’s next?

From what I heard, it is Mahmood’s Den
Prepare yourself and do a full backup..
Good luck.

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By: Mulan

Mulan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:22:31 +0000

You are right, it does work! Fancy that!

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:03:13 +0000

Thanks for the update Mulan, I stuck that one off the list.

I also notice that bahrainonline.org IS accessible (though very slow) if you put www in front, however a 403 result if you go “plain”.

I’ll check it again this afternoon and update if necessary.

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By: Mulan

Mulan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:27:58 +0000

I am using a Batelco connection and I can acces Al-Sarah Al-Watani normally.

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By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » The Week That Was in Bahrain

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » The Week That Was in Bahrain — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:44:42 +0000

[...] With people busy celebrating and ranting, Bahrain continues to stifle freedom of expression by shutting yet another website, bringing the number of blocked sites in the tiny kingdom to 10. “It appears that someone who is really shaking in his boots and deems it very necessary to protect us from ourselves and protect the country from those nefarious people hell bent on toppling the government has done the right thing™ and blocked… [...]

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By: richy

richy — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:10:05 +0000

I read somewhere that Skype would be made not available soon, any update on that?

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By: bystander

bystander — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:31:38 +0000

wattani.net is not blocked on batelco and redirection was set up to a raw ip address

as for Nabeel Rajab, hello there! [thank you for alerting RSF ]
you could try this: http://bahrainrights.org.nyud.net:8080

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