In a very surprising move the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just recently unblocked the entire blogspot domain. Credit must go out to Don’t Block the Blog team (Omer Alvie & myself) and the Action Group Against Blogspot Ban in Pakistan. It was a combined effort from both groups to have created enough pressure to undo the blanket blogspot ban, it helps solve the problem of hundred of Pakistan based bloggers and blog readers the constant inconvenience for practically no fault of their own
All celebrations aside there are still a few websites that are still blocked from the PTA’s list. I feel the government should not be the enforcer of any ban, it usually makes matters worse and unwillingly projects the website into fame and recognition. The bureaucracy should realize that people are educated enough to decide for themselves and a small website can make all the fuss but if left alone will die its own death, probably far sooner if unrecognised than actually announcing and blocking it publicly.
Websites Blocked as per the PTA’s Letter dated 28th Feb 2006
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DrawMohammad.com BLOCKED
The Nordish Portal BLOCKED
Draw Mohammed Week UNBLOCKED
Mohammed drawings BLOCKED
Free Speech? BLOCKED
Plus + Ultra BLOCKED
Jesus and Mo BLOCKED
Mohammed Image Archive BLOCKED
Dumb Religion UNBLOCKED
Danish Cartoons UNBLOCKED
Drawchrist.com BLOCKED
Websites Blocked as per the PTA’s Letter dated 25th April 2006
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Baloch Voice BLOCKED
Baloch 2000 BLOCKED
Baloch Front BLOCKED
Sana Baloch BLOCKED
Hindu Unity BLOCKED
Comments
9 responses to “PTA Unblocks Blogspot”
I can’t access Wikipedia ! I’d rather see Blogspot banned than Wikipedia …
Congratulations to you nevertheless TM !
thats great doc. now u wont have any problems visiting my blog.
ps. can u move me back to the top of the list?
Yep, now it got all right again, months of suffering and now we are back again in the cyber world 🙂 yeah baby!!!
Congratualtions!!! though it wont open here in NWFP Peshawar, wondering whats the problem or may be our ISP hasnt reacted to the PTA yet.Lets see what happens!!!
Congratulations!!! Though i dont see it unblocked here in NWFP Peshawar,but still congrats for what u did for this all thing!!!
hi
i read some quotation some where that “internet treats blocking as a malfunctioning and bypass it ” 🙂
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