Mahmood's Den

BAHRAINI authorities yesterday claimed to have blocked a number of websites and blogs by mistake. The Information Affairs Authority (IAA) claimed a technical error resulted in blocking of several sites, but said in a statement it was fixing the problem. [...] She said her site www.sillybahrainigirl.blogspot.com was blocked on Tuesday after being incorrectly categorised as [...]

Bahrain’s Information Affairs Authority (IAA) is to get a hi-tech overhaul to boost its edge and bring it up to international standards. [source] What? AGAIN?! Isn’t it high time to just bury the carcass and be done with it? Shall I count the number of times this particular call was made and the amount of [...]