Comments on: Blogspot still blocked. Newspapers still silent.

By: Steve Case

Steve Case — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:48:34 +0000

try using this to access blocked or restricted content (and it’s free)

http://bypass.thezerogroup.com

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Ethiopia Telecoms: Oops, they did it again…

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:29:48 +0000

[...] As with the previous block, Ethiopia Telecommunications Corporation – the sole ISP in the country – says they’ve got no idea what could possibly be going on… This denial makes it hard for international media to report on the situation in Ethiopia without lots of caveats (”individuals report that blogs are blocked”, rather than “Ethiopia is blocking blogs”) – unsurprisingly, a search for “Ethiopia blogspot” on Google News reveals no stories on the topic. [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » India joins an elite club?

…My heart’s in Accra » India joins an elite club? — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:40:14 +0000

[...] One of the major challenges of documenting and decrying Internet censorship is that it can be very confusing to figure out precisely why you can’t access a particular website. Is the problem specific to your internet service provider? Is the server down? Or is a block of some sort taking place? Groups like Open Net Initiative do an excellent job of documenting the specifics of internet filtering, but they’re academic groups and have a focus on getting the story right, not on speed. (I’ve written about this before.) Indian bloggers are showing a distributed model for filtering testing that has interesting possibilities for the future – Neha and others have posted information on running traceroutes to blogger.com and are asking people to post the results of their inquiries on various Indian ISPs on a wiki. [...]

By: Meskel Square

Meskel Square — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:14:52 +0000

Where have all the (new) bloggers gone?

Is it me? Or has it got a little quieter in the Ethiopian blogosphere since all those Blogspot blogs mysteriously disappeared from Ethiopian computer screens. I haven’t noticed any new blogs for the past couple of weeks – apart from…

By: Elijah

Elijah — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:37:17 +0000

Thanks for keeping this alive, Ethan.

Is there anything people can do beyond take note?

By: The Skeptic الشكاك » Ethiopia Blocks Blogs

The Skeptic الشكاك » Ethiopia Blocks Blogs — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:23:24 +0000

[...] Ethan’s been trying to raise a ruckus about this for weeks. It’s time he had some help. If you blog, or better still, if you can get your writings published in a newspaper or broadcast on the air, please take this issue up. Particularly if you’re an Egyptian or a Tunisian blogger. It’d be a nice way of extending the same support you’ve seen from abroad to others.Technorati Tags: Ethiopia, blogs, censorship [...]

By: china doesn’t have the corner on the censorship market… at connectingthedots

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:32:04 +0000

[...] Ethan: …”internet censorship doesn’t always make the headlines, especially when it takes place in Africa.” [...]

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:09:13 +0000

Whether you are more an academic research organization or more activists, you still have to do everything possible to get the facts right. If you are wrong on the facts, you undermine anything for which you are being activists. Accuracy above all.