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scot47
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 Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: Amazon Dot Com BLOCKED ? |
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So the zealous custodians of cybermorality in the KofSA have blocked Amazon ! And this coincides with membership of WTO !
Free trade is okay - but not in ideas ! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| How about other book selling sites like Barnes & Noble. com? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| I hear now that the US site is not blocked but the UK one is ! Strange since some 'anti-saudi' books were banned by the UK distributors but avaialable from the one in the USofA. |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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It's simply the result of a time-out at the proxy server, or maybe even your ISP's or KFUPM's server and the wrong error message showing up.
Put the conspiracy theory to rest. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: amazonia |
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| When we try we get the usual warning that the site is blocked, so can that be a Time Out or the ISP ? |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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You can get it again now. I got the ISU blocked message and then while I was filling in the unblocking form I found out that it was now accessible!
There are varying other reasons why the blocking page comes up. The software is automatic so it can be triggered by something on the site (maybe the mention of "biblical DVDs" or "Sex and the City"), the IP address of the site can be that held previously by a porn site, or the cache might not have been flushed. |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:18 am Post subject: Amazon - hard to swallow |
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Perhaps they thought "Amazon" referred to scantily-clad, bellicose women.  |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| My colleague compalins that the UK version of Amazon remains blocked. Persdonally I still us ethe old-fashioned bookshop where you are required to be physically present for a transaction to take place. |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| yea it's back being blocked again. Send in an unblocking request. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Why block the UK site but leave the US one unblocked ?!? |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| It's now unblocked again. And the offending phrases are still there, so it looks to me much more like a glitch in the software, unless Amazon.co.uk is using a set of IP addresses, some of which previously belonged to a blocked site. |
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