Facebook Blocked in Syria
NYTimes is reporting that Facebook has been blocked in Syria and it looks like its been blocked there for about 2 weeks till now, the reason, according to NYTimes based on reporters and residents in Syria is the “fears of Israeli ”infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net”
While his news doesn’t come as much of a surprise for me, I wonder how effective such a block is, people will eventually who want to access FB or any other site that has been blocked will find a way to bypass the block, there were rumors that the UAE has blocked Facebook a while ago but it turned out to be just an ISP error.
Anyone from Syria that can confirm the news? I wonder if sites like Myspace and Hi5 have been blocked as well? they also have user groups that can be infiltrated as well.
The Syrian network on Facebook has 29,313 members, which isn’t a big number considering Syria’s population, but there are probably lots of other members who didn’t update their network information.
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December 9th, 2007 at 3:01 am
It’s so true that being banned doesn’t mean there is no way to get in. As a matter of fact, if things are blocked for a certain person, problems tend to occur when people hack into the systems.
-Mike