UAE Community Blog: 'I will not use Blogger.com, MySpace.com, Blog.com, Spaces.MSN.com and 360.yahoo.com'

16 January, 2006

'I will not use Blogger.com, MySpace.com, Blog.com, Spaces.MSN.com and 360.yahoo.com' - PledgeBank

Since I am wedded to blogger.com, I won't be signing the pledge. But I do believe we should let blogger.com know our displeasure over the omission of Palestine. You may not always agree with him, but Tigerhawk makes the case well.

I wonder where the list of locations comes from. I doubt the companies come up with it on their own. Is it a default list based upon some Internet convention?

secretdubai said...: Well, MySpace is blocked anyway.

I think we need to steel ourselves for the likely day that Blogger.com is blocked too. I hope everyone is keeping offline archives of their blogs, if they want to hold on to them.; 16 January, 2006 15:45
Anonymous said...: Oh give it a rest. The most likely reason why palestine is not included is because it was not in the ISO list they usually use. Of course, as a country Palestine does not exist, but the Occuped Palestinian Territories does exist and does have a country code (ps). So, it should be quite easy and non-controversial to have it added, without having to go all out and do this 'pledge' business. A simple reminder to the blog services in question would get that done.

Not sure why people like to dramatize simple problems.; 16 January, 2006 16:57
samuraisam said...: read the stupid pledge thing properly, blogger has already changed it.

thats the first online petition i've ever seen that has changed something, that makes about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of them successful, everyone go sign the unblock flickr petition, i think i'm going to make a "block flickr petition" just to be different.; 16 January, 2006 17:08
BuJ said...: Sam,
inta lazeez!
don't worry, it's positive.. i wonder how quick u will be to figure it out :); 17 January, 2006 03:10
samuraisam said...: "i am adorable"

damn straight.; 17 January, 2006 08:58

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