UAE blocks Stumbleupon

by Chris Dawson

This post was written in July 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Just a month after United Arab Emirates Internet provider du blocked Skype calls the only other ISP in the UAE, Etisalat appears to have blocked Stumbleupon.

I can remember when ISPs such as AOL and Compuserve attempted to control what content their users could access and both failed eventually allowing users full Internet Access. The UAE are one of the few places that still control what sites and content users can access.

Although Du have blocked Skype and Etisalat have blocked Stumbleupon it appears neither have blocked both applications.

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Author: Chris Dawson
Posted at: Sunday, July 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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2 Responses to “UAE blocks Stumbleupon”

  1. Fikrat on July 8th, 2008 6:20 pm

    Well,
    Some people use VPN Service to unblock Skype in UAE.

  2. Chris Dawson on July 15th, 2008 12:52 pm

    It appears that Stumbleupon has now been unblocked by Etisalat :-D

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