Don’t Block the Blog

Speaking up Against Internet Censorship, the world over

Archive for October, 2006

October 30, 2006

Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested

In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a […]

October 30, 2006

Mahmood TV Blog Blocked in Bahrain

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 […]

October 1, 2006

Pkblogs & Inblogs temporarily down

On Saturday 30th of September the Pakistani blogging community suddenly woke up to see that both proxy servers Pkblogs and Inblogs were out of commission and displayed a server error on their page. When the Don’t Block the Blog team immediately contacted the owners of domains (Yasir and Naveed Memon) and were told that it […]