Comments on: KEMS Blocks Blogger in Kuwait!

By: cixousianpanic

cixousianpanic — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:30:43 +0000

omg they dont have the right to block blogs 3ala kaifhum! that’s ridiculous!

By: spontaneousnessity

spontaneousnessity — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:43:56 +0000

nothing seems to be going right in this country

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:32:42 +0000

Fast telco did it before and now this, pathetic really..

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:51:57 +0000

Agol ro7 sane3 eGo a7sanlik

By: mofal6a7

mofal6a7 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:50:41 +0000

man sometimes it because the content filtering . sometime `3a9eeeeeeeeeb :P . we dont want ppl to talk . jezak Allah kher

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:01:53 +0000

That is true for BitTorrent. It is known that because of the intensive use nature of BitTorrent, many ISPs around the world started dedicating lower bandwidth for BitTorrent!

Anyways, if you take a look at kuwaitblogs today they will know how bad it was for them. It was full of complains. Hope that delivers a clear enough message.

By: 3baid

3baid — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:01:01 +0000

Some time ago, Flickr and Youtube were momentarily blocked too. Maybe they’re abusing the blocking system to lower bandwidth usage :P

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:53:33 +0000

Hmm… not sure. I do notice even with proxy some sites when I do POST request it fails.

Good to have you back by the way.

By: DeadEye

DeadEye — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:20:31 +0000

I’ve said it before and I will say it again:
“ISPs in Kuwait love to play *god* with the Internet”

I wonder if it is somebody playing the fool with the filter settings? as for proxies can someone verify this: I think Qnet is *filtering* any inbound traffic on port 80 and 8080 so even when an external proxy is used with these ports it will still be subject to filtering.

By: Kroms

Kroms — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:00:31 +0000

Will fix :) I don’t like the phrase, personally, but I’ll change it when I finish the game – which I recently bought.

There’s a new “Drawings and Gallery” in my blog, you can comment on drawings there.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:54:48 +0000

According to my blog as well, it was only blocked.

I looked at the sketch, I just didnt know where to post my comment ;/.
I really like it good job. The phrase is not bad as well. Just manny is kind of thin down the wrist. his body in the game is more of straight.

By: Kroms

Kroms — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:00:09 +0000

According to Fonzation's blog, it's been fixed. Errrrr....The Manny Calavera sketch. Click on it so it enlarges. Sorry I'm being so clingy about it, need an opinion of someone who is a huge fan of Grim Fandango.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:36:50 +0000

Exactly. This is becoming ridiculous.

By: Kroms

Kroms — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:11:55 +0000

Well I do believe that SOME sites should be blocked (and I’m thinking of illegal sites here), there is no reason to block others. Why would anyone block something like Blogger? Afraid they might get “dates” online? Hell, I use blogger, I only get occasional emails about my blog or comments. Never had a Britney Spears-wanna-be send me nude photos of herself or something.

Weird.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:39:31 +0000

Luckily there is something called proxy. Even the ISP people tell us off the record to use one :)

By: Fonzation » Archive » Bogger is Blocked

Fonzation » Archive » Bogger is Blocked — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:25:15 +0000

[...] Well, today I got to work and as I do every morning while having my coffee, is to write something personal and then start checking out what other bloggers have had to say lately. The first two blogs I usually like checking are Sita and Blue Ice. And then dozens after that. First I get this prohibited access on both blogs and then all other blogs on blogger. Don’t know if it is some stunt pulled by our IT department, but I doubt it cos we have our own “blocked’ message or is there something wrong with the net. WordPress blogs are working fine though. Either way, this better not go on for long, it will ruin my daily morning routine. {Read more on this on Bashar’s post} Note: Sorry to all blogger users if you dont see me commenting today. [...]