Site Blocked...
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Thursday, February 14 at Thursday, February 14, 2008.
If you are inside the UAE and try too look at any of the images posted on my blog via Flickr, this is what you see:
I hadn't seen this before, because for some reason it doesn't happen from within my office. From Starbucks though, Flickr is just one of many websites that are blocked. Interesting stuff, and I guess I need to start hosting my images on a web service that is consistent with the religious, cultural, politial and moral values of the UAE.....
Picasa seems to make it through just fine, although I've always thought the interface was claggy as all getout. Minimalism is nice for a search page,Google, but for anything more complicated, maybe people are happy to be weighed down by a few bells and whistles? I suppose beggars cant be choosers though. I, for one, salute my new, morally consistent google overlords.
I hadn't seen this before, because for some reason it doesn't happen from within my office. From Starbucks though, Flickr is just one of many websites that are blocked. Interesting stuff, and I guess I need to start hosting my images on a web service that is consistent with the religious, cultural, politial and moral values of the UAE.....Picasa seems to make it through just fine, although I've always thought the interface was claggy as all getout. Minimalism is nice for a search page,Google, but for anything more complicated, maybe people are happy to be weighed down by a few bells and whistles? I suppose beggars cant be choosers though. I, for one, salute my new, morally consistent google overlords.
Welcome to the UAE! :) I lived with that all my teenage life, imagine that!
yep. I hear it was in response to images being available of young arab girls... for a while Google Earth was blocked in Bahrain because people were using it to take photos of the Royal bling.