Blog Blackout
From Sunday through Tuesday afternoon I'd been having trouble viewing anything hosted by blogspot.com, including my own. Interestingly, you write your blog at blogger.com and it's published to blogspot.com. I had no trouble creating and editing, I just couldn't view.
Apparently this has happened before. Last year in order to "protect" the Korean people from a video of a Korean national being beheaded in Iraq the Korean Ministry of Information and Commerce ordered all Korean ISPs to block access to blogging sites. While there has been no formal announcement this year, the block appears to only implemented by Korea Telecomm and only affects blogspot.com and typepad.com blogs. The current theory is that this coincides with Korean Independence Day (Monday, 15 Aug) and is to show solidarity with the North by not allowing people to view comments critical of their neighbors.
Marmot (a good one-stop shop for Korea info) has more.
Apparently this has happened before. Last year in order to "protect" the Korean people from a video of a Korean national being beheaded in Iraq the Korean Ministry of Information and Commerce ordered all Korean ISPs to block access to blogging sites. While there has been no formal announcement this year, the block appears to only implemented by Korea Telecomm and only affects blogspot.com and typepad.com blogs. The current theory is that this coincides with Korean Independence Day (Monday, 15 Aug) and is to show solidarity with the North by not allowing people to view comments critical of their neighbors.
Marmot (a good one-stop shop for Korea info) has more.
posted by tcw1138 at 11:14 PM
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