Has the Wordpress domain been blocked?
August 23rd, 2007 by The Lost Boy
I got an email from BP saying that the entire Wordpress domain has been blocked by the MICT. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not? I’m currently out of Thailand and am unable to see what’s going on. Here’s a link to Wordpress and here’s a link to a blog hosted on the Wordpress domain (my buddy Iris’ blog). Can you see these sites? From what BP says, this has only been implemented by TOT. Any info would be great. Don’t panic if you use Wordpress, as this would only affect blogs on the Wordpress domain, ie blogurl.wordpress.com
Filed under Tech stuff .
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 am
Works fine for me. True has been having lots of routing problems this week, maybe this is something similar.
AFAIK, If you don’t see the MICT logo, it hasn’t been blocked by them.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 am
I am not sure about Thailand but I heard that it was blocked in Turkey.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:41 am
I’m in Malaysia at the moment though, so wasn’t sure.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am
I’m getting on wordpress alright, Matt. I hope they won’t block it. Sucks to be me if they do.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 am
Not working here. I see the same message that comes up with YouTube. Probably one person said the wrong thing and they blocked the whole site.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:49 am
Everything appears normal for me (on TOT in central Bangkok), but this being Thailand anything can happen and usually does. What happened to the new law about requiring a court order to block sites ?
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 am
True and other ISP’s are blocking content which they feel might offend the hearts of Thai people. Not sure if they have decided that some blog on the wordpress domain has offended and done a *.wordpress.com block, but this is Thailand and customer service isn’t always a number one thought
http://bangkok.metblogs.com/archives/2007/08/youtube_down_ag_1.phtml
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Works fine for me but different ISPs are blocking different sites.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
True and other ISP’s are blocking content which they feel might offend the hearts of Thai people. Not sure if they have decided that some blog on the wordpress domain has offended…
It could have something to do with whatever Bangkok Pundit is referring to in this cryptic post:
December happenings
)r, as New Mandala is powered by Wordpress, I wonder if the block has anything to do with this comment by Republican?
Conspiracy theory
It’s in English, but no doubt it would also be doing the rounds in Thai.
August 25th, 2007 at 1:04 am
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January 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 am
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