Comments on: Blocked in Uzbekistan

By: Azjon

Azjon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:13:59 +0000

You pissed them off. Cool!!!!!

By: Azjon

Azjon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:12:45 +0000

Congrats you worried them enough I guess.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:25:21 +0000

Hey, Reporters Without Borders is reporting about your reporting problems in Uzbekistan:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21348

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:24:48 +0000

Laurence is correct. Hits coming from proxy servers will not show up as being from Uzbekistan. By definition they will show up as being from some other country.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:12:42 +0000

Hi Nathan, Just checking in. Congratulations on getting blocked. It means people are reading Registan and taking it seriously. Hope Student does a good job in translation to Uzbek–might I suggest Cyrillic for Russian as well? There were lots of Russian-speakers in Tashkent who did not have such perfect Uzbek? Hits from anonymized servers used by Central Asians wouldn’t show up as coming from Uzbekistan, of course, so my guess is that you’ll still get through–also I would think that an EMAIL service, automated subscriptions, might be difficult to block?

By: student

student — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:26:00 +0000

Ok, then I will start translating whatever is posted here into Uzbek and you will help me to upload that translations to the site. What do you think, is it better an Uzbek version to be in cyrillic or latin? I will write you an email soon. Cuz I don’t have a regular internet access here, I have to use library comp lab.

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:18:02 +0000

why don’t you just set-up automatic syndication of all your posts on LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress.com — then to block your blog, they will need to blog every individual blog service, which I don’t think is likely–and even if it is, the international outcry will be much stronger.

By: smirnoff

smirnoff — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:21:12 +0000

Sorry to hear this.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:59:23 +0000

Our Google Analytics from last July onwards shows no hits from Uzbekistan at all. I am afraid that the Uzbek authorities have become a little cleverer in their blocking techniques.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:20:09 +0000

It will be interesting to see if you still get hits from Uzbekistan. When I was there last year, I found that, for example, I couldn’t access Human Rights Watch, while others could. I think the blocking tools may be somewhat random….