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Sunday
Apr052009

Haaretz blocked in the UAE

By AuthorIssandr El Amrani |
Remember I was telling you about having a weird experience with the Haaretz website a few days ago, being occasionally blocked from accessing it?

Apparently the block is now official in the UAE. Here's what a friend there got when he tried to access it:

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DateApril 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM Comment2 Comments

Reader Comments (2)

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Israel in general banned in the UAE? I was there for work recently and needed to access some telecom-related Israeli sites, and got that error-message for all of them. I assumed it was any site ending in .il, because these sites had nothing to do with politics or culture. They were cell phone companies.

Apr 5, 2009 at 3:29 PM | Unregistered Commentertelecom analyst

But the Haaretz site is not a .il one. And banning Israeli sites seems kinda stupid.

Apr 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM | Unregistered Commenterarabist

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