Did I mention that these lists of “undesirable” sites are compiled most probably by our illustrious Jamal Dawood, the guy implicated in the bandargate scandal for accepting a kickback of BD2,200. Yes I know he’s cheap, and he’s still running for parliament! The guy has no shame whatsoever!
Ah, how wonderful…
[...] Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon. [...]
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[...] Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon. [...]
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[...] Many might have kid about Bahrain’s most popular blog, Mahmood’s Den, being blocked one day. It seems that day will be tomorrow according to a ministerial order. Mahmood writes: I just heard confirmed news that this site (Mahmood’s Den) will be blocked effective immediately, together with 6 others (don’t know which yet) by order of the Minister of Information. [...]
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[...] My god, the state of internet censorship in the Arab world progressively keeps getting worse, the latest series of bad news coming from Bahrain, which just blocked one of the best blogs in the Arab world, Mahmood’s Den. [...]
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Mahmood.tv Blocked in Bahrain…
Mahmood.tv has been blocked!. If you dont know Mahmood he is a prominent Bahraini blogger a good friend and for some reason the Bahrain Ministry of Information has blocked his website in Bahrain.
This has always been something we worry and joke about i…
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Repression in Bahrain…
The Bahraini minister of disInformation has blocked seven sites. Mahmood’s Den–the best blog from Bahrain–is one of them. A most…
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Government Subsidized Publicity…
Our wonderful petro-dollars at work. You do know that the USS Eisenhower has been deployed to protect (ultimately) shenanigans like this?…
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[...] Pakistanis don’t need to be told how much it can hurt to be at the receiving end of a censorship on their own blog, we sadly have had a massive blockade on the entire Blogspot.com cordoning off more then 10 million blogs for over 11 months and counting. Its sad to note that a few days back Mahmood.tv a very brilliant and outspoken blogger from Bahrain has been blocked by his own government accsuing him of “defamation of the person of the king and royal family members.” (press law no. 47, passed in 2002) … more … Mahmood suggests that all the sites blocked are ones that published information on “the Jamal Dawood scandal”. Dawood is the head of Press and Publication for the Bahrani government and has been involved with part plans to order all Bahrani bloggers to register their online presences. He’s evidently implicated in “Bandargate“, a scandal named after Salah al-Bandar, the Sudanese/British author of a report that documents attempts to rig parliamentary elections in favor of the Sunni minority. [...]
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[...] along with a few others. Mahmood from the Bahrain weblog Mahmood’s Den was presented with a site blocking order and, as he wrote yesterday: I just heard confirmed news that this site (Mahmood’s Den) will be [...]
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[...] folks, we’re all getting to be old hands at this sadly but you know what to do! Mahmood’s blog (Mahmood’s Den) has been blocked in Bahrain. The smart cookie made a mirror site of it [...]
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I don’t know if it will work or not but if your being blocked you might try inblogs.net
I don’t agree with some of the things I’ve seen in your blog, but this still isn’t right.
Best wishes.
WTF?!?!?
Do these ppl think they can seriously do this without any consequences? This just goes to show the kind of idiots that we have in control of this!
Congrats on the free publicity Mahmood
glad to see you back up and running. tried getting in last night and couldn’t, even w/ the TOR.
i was seriously going in and out of shock and withdrawals lastnight…. so it’s really good to see things are back to normal!
Ah, the price of fame is not too cheap! After tripling he hits due to the announcement, I have had to upgrade the server once again! I gave the order to the host company to upgrade the memory to 2GB to give the database a bit more room to breathe, once that was done of course the site became a lot more stable.
That was the technical part.
The blocking part I suspect will happen sometime today, as the order you see above was sent around 4pm from the minister’s office to BIX (Bahrain Internet Exchange) through which all traffic goes, but as that office was closed, no action was taken. Now that they are back in the office, I suspect that they will enact that order… unless they receive another one to just throw it in the bucket, which is what they should do.
We’ll wait and see.
Well, the still do not understand that today, in the electronic age, censorship produces exactly the negative effect that the gov wants to avoid. In North Korea where no-one has access to the media I would understand, but nowadays and here… ridiculous
FWIW Mahmood, I’m writing an editorial to the New York Times. If it gets published, maybe that will raise the profile a bit. You’re an icon my friend.
Jared
what’s your IP address number? so that we can find this somehow.
I think the NYTimes will publish it!
And they say we have democracy, what a big pack of Bull.
These stupid bastards should be ashamed, they think people are stupid like them. Keep it on Mahmood, the truth can’t hide behind the sun for long.
The blockage is now officially on, and this is the first comment I post BEYOND the block and in spite of it.
Both this site, and the Arabic one are both 403ed as of a few moments ago.
I’m a cyber dissident! Can you believe this?
What … utter …. morons.
Your still coming in 4×4 in Miami.
I’m a cyber dissident! Can you believe this?
Right there with you .
You are now officially blocked..
Welcome to our world!
Ali, I must have taken the red pill this morning, and it is freaky!
I shall henceforth call myself Morpheus.
heh, I’m not sure what their ‘blocking’ means but i can read this site in the UK loud and clear :yes:
They’re not concerned with the outside world at all Andy, nor do they give a damn about it. If they did, they would have at least honoured the agreements they signed internationally, or at least listened to reason.
Hence, they think that by limiting information access WITHIN Bahrain will save them.
Ah, o’kay.. so it’s a ‘localized’ version of blocking – now I understand.. you know what.. same thing was happening in the USSR 30+ years ago though, the authorities were actively blocking VOA (voice of america) BBC and other such radio broadcasts aimed at the population, you know what happened next
Viva la TOR!
wooo!
Ok, so I would understand the Ministry of Disinformation blocking your site, but albawaba.com??? Its a business news portal, to the best of my knowledge. Hang in there, Mahmood, seems you’re up against a very dimwitted bunch. Stay safe, stay strong!
The biggest collective weblog in the Netherlands is also paying attention to the blocking of your site by the ministry of silly walks,…eeh sorry,….disinformation..…
Article: http://www.sargasso.nl/archief/2006/10/30/bloggers-onder-vuur-bahrein-en-bangladesh/#comment-180743
Do you have an e- mailadres of those morons?
Don’t give up!
This is indeed a sad day for Bahrain: freedom of expression is a basic right, not a privilege which can be withdrawn at any moment on the whims of an official.
Power corrupts and the only way to control it is to expose the truth.
By blocking this and other sites the government has shown his hand: they are afraid of the free flow of ideas and information.
Bon Courage!
Joop
Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?
indeed Joop, thanks for your support! Thanks again to everyone’s support, which makes this struggle worth it.
My deepest condolences to Bahrain. We certainly are sinking deeper in the cess pit. Chin up Mahmood. You know we ARE WITH YOU. Please, please, please.. make LOTS OF NOISE!
Rest assured that I shall!
Just finished a couple of press interviews (international) and they should appear tomorrow. Will post them when they do.
Welcome to real [Arab] world Mahmood
join the club. Being censored in Tunisia since 2003, I know what it feels like.
With all my support
As ugly as this is, it might end the blocking strategy of Abdul Ghafaar. I’m optimistic. They better unblock MTV soon!
It’s different this time because Mahmood is the top Bahraini “blogger”..
We are all willing to back you up.
Inshalla soon you’ll frame this blocking order and hang it proudly because it proves nothing but Mahmood’s liberal thoughts that enlighten many others.
Ya36eeek el 3afya =) A hero ’3a9bn 3n anfhom!
well,Bahrain at least is way better than Saudi Arabia,they will not only block your site,but they will block your butthole here
just wondering Mahmood if you write in Bahrani newspapers or not.
They blocked a window,but they cant engulf your world
woot woot for tor.
Was wondering why your site was down the whole time even w/ tor.
Negative publicity is still publicity eh?
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Supporting you all the way Mahmood.
keep it up buddy …
DIB: “Our wonderful petro-dollars at work. You do know that the USS Eisenhower has been deployed to protect (ultimately) shenanigans like this?…”
I may want to confirm this with Rummy the next time we have lunch but I feel confident that I can say that the USS Eisenhower and its associated battle group has not been dispatched by America to the Gulf to shut down Mahmood’s Den.
Trust Me On This,
Tantor