The Don’t Block the Blog campaign would like to issue a Blog Alert to all Pakistani bloggers on blogspot.com to resist the temptation to upgrade to Blogger Beta, the improved version of the Google Blogging platform.
It apparently seems that once the blogger upgrades to Blogger Beta, all hell breaks loose as the proxy servers are having a tough time processing the new upgrade. Additionally it also seems that the back-end portion of the site which used to reside on an unblocked IP address now moves the Dashboard onto the same IP as that of blogspot.com hence the restrictions imposed on the blogspot domain now effectively block access to the back-end of the blogging platform.
Pakistani bloggers are being forced to take drastic measures to move away from blogspot domain, now more out of frustration of being unable to live behind a gag order in silence which was enforced by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to ban access to a select few websites depicting the Prophet Mohammed blocking the cartoons only impacted the Pakistani freedom as the offending websites catapulted to fame and fortune, shortly said If Pakistanis were not viewing them heck the rest of the world was and they owners made tons from the new found traffic coming down their way to see whats going on.
The Don’t Block the Blog (DBTB) team, continues to highlight the issues which have plagued the Pakistani blogosphere since March of 2006 in the national and the international press. Since the blockade, a couple of savvy Pakistani programmers have created sites that help by-pass the unfair blanket ban for Internet users in Pakistan. The DBTB team specifically, launched the Bloggers.Pakistan web site (www.bloggers.pk), the first Pakistani Blog Aggregator, to help encourage blogging and to ensure that those unfairly banned Pakistani blogs that were not officially censored by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, have a chance to be read by the global Internet audience. We strongly oppose any form of Internet censorship and request the national and international bloggers, media and free speech organizations to help support our cause and to continue to highlight this issue of the unfair blanket ban of blogs for the Internet users in Pakistan.
The Don’t Block the Blog team has issued a Press Release for everyone to distribute widely and hope that someone within the bureaucratic circles of Islamabad can wake up and remove all forms of Internet censorship in Pakistan.
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5 responses to “Pakistan Blog Alert ! Do Not Upgrade to Blogger Beta”
I hope google will not move old blogger system to new IP.
Actually proxies are getting failed due to Secure Http protocol[https] which establish a direct connection between client and server.
Hmmm i am so glad i migrated to wordpress last year (though i believe its next in line to be blocked.) Screw all those old foggies who want us to stay ignorant and listen to their vicious lies.
heya
i actually switched to blogger beta NOT knowing i’d never be able to blog again!!! 🙁 its been about a week and it just won’t log me in. do you know of a way i can work around this? i’m terribly upset.
I moved to blogger beta and now i’m regretting it :\, I’ve had nothing but problems with it and I wish I can switch back to the old blogger. I installed WP on my own hosting but I could not edit the templates so I moved back to blogger. I don’t want to switch blogs again and again, WP charges to get a domain redirected but I don’t have any way of paying it so I could not get that done either. Anyways, As of right now I cannot access Blogger.com again. Has the govt. blocked it again?
I hope will not move old blogger to system new IP. In this way New blogger are entered in this system.