Wikipedia temp-blocked in Pakistan?
Wikipedia was reportedly temporarily blocked by three ISPs in Pakistan today. I don’t quite understand what this court order is suporting such actions, or why they might have reversed the block so quickly (it’s unblocked now); and hope for a more detailed confirmation from someone in the know.
China’s still blocking WP. Someone claimed that Burma is as well; is this so? And has Iran ever blocked it? Sadly, I don’t know the answer. This last part should be fixed.
mako
March 31, 2006 @ 7:52 pm
I don’t know the answer to Burma but, as I understand, it wouldn’t make a huge difference. There was no public Internet access at all until a bit more than a year ago. The last numbers I’ve seen show something like 20-30K people with net access (in a country of 40-45 million people). The Internet is, as you might imagine, very blocked (something around 11% of all sites on one survey!).
Here’s a website I found by someone did a study: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/burma/
It does not, unfortunately, talk about WP.