Qtel censor
I'm really angry at the moment and gonna write many not nice letters to Qtel. For the last two month I've already got used to the idea of Qtel blocking many web sites by censor, however inapropriate it seem sometimes.
But one web site, wich even two days ago was accessible and I was an active user of it, now got blocked.
This web site got nothing to do with erotics or porno, nothing what they pretend to worry about - it's a site where you can find and communicate with your former school or university friends!!! It's address is www.vkontakte.ru, it's a russian equivalent of "the face book", it's a main russian site to communicate with your friends!
And now I'm cuted off from it. Very nice of them.
Have any of you ever had similar problem and have you delt with it? Is it likely that writting e-mails to Qtel will help?
P.S. few days after post- I found solution -
http://www.bananavpn.com/ =))
I use a vpn too when i travel but from http://www.vpnaccounts.com Sorry i couldnt help earlier.
thank's a lot to all of you for the comments!
it's funny, just at the time when i was reading through responses, in down of the page was adwert that answers all of my qestions..
and will help any of you who has the same problem -
http://www.bananavpn.com/
kassandra, i dont think writing letters to qtel is gonna help. they have already blocked out wesites like Hi5 as well, which is also basically just a community page where u could connect to ure friends.
we still have a long way to go here in terms of letting people do their own thing & decide wats best for themselves.
I posted this before and it proved the point.
No one at Scunthorpe.gov.uk received any e-mails after a filter was put in.
Nobody is listening to complaints:
http://all-abroad.blogspot.com/2007/03/are-sites-ever-unblocked.html
True. This may have been addressed by now but when I used to visit Dubai years ago I couldn't access my university email address because it was at www.sussex.ac.uk!
When I worked at the Tribune my US colleague couldn't access the NBA website because of the (spellbinding) cheerleader section. To be fair he 'phoned them and it was uncensored immediately. Have you tried talking to them?
Incidentally, historically censorship has generally proved counterproductive politically. Lumping wide sections of information together with genuinely subversive dialogue pushes a wider section of the community into the realm of the dissident and adds credibility and popularity to both the insubordinate and deviant. Western governments have learned the most successful manner of controlling information is to ruthlessly promote the compliant, add stigma to the troublesome and (up to a point) ignore the depraved. As the Qatari economy matures, so will its leaders and participants, and I'm sure the government will realise its much better to let people believe they're making their own minds up about what they read, watch and ultimately think.
Cheers mush.
Joe.
i guess censorship is very common in the middle east. Someone told me that facebook.com is banned in UAE.