This Is This

I have achieved one of the highest honours in the blogging world. I speak not of the Bloggies, or the Swampies, nor the like. No.

A friend of mine wrote to me today. He who works for in international development in Egyptian and travels around on business throughout the Middle East.

He emailed:

I’m in Morocco at the moment where you’ll be interested to know the government appears to have blocked your website. Probably not just you, they’ve probably blocked IP ranges for the usual blog hosters.

Now, this website is hosted by a Very Big Hosting Company who host lots of other things as well as blogs, so there is no practical way for a box full of servers to know this is a blog, especially as Very Big Hosting Company do not label this site as such.

I use Wordpress as an editorial interface, but everything sits on the web space provided by Very Big Hosting Company, which could be anything.

I explained all this to my friend, and my man in the Middle East wrote explained how web stuff work in Morocco:

All networks here flow through the Ministry of Information. They are preventing me from accessing This Is This, as I get a 404 Page Not Found error message. I can tell it’s being blocked because it works fine if I use a proxy server.

So for some reason, this site is web non grata in those parts.

You can’t read This Is This in Morocco. Fact.

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