12 November, 2009

NOW YOU SEE IT, THEN YOU DON'T




There have been a couple of posts put up over the past couple of days that seem to have mysteriously disappeared. Blogger Dashboard gives the header & opening lines of the post but when you click on it, you're taken to the latest post & the one you want is nowhere to be found.
What happened to 'Judicial System Fails Roxanne' & 'Visitors are being held captive for months after passports are being confiscated for minor offences in Dubai' both posted by Radha Stirling? Click on either title & you'll get the 'Page Not Found' excuse.

If the posts aren't being blocked, what's happened to them?
If they are being blocked, I can't help but think the UAE is taking it's censorship a bit too far.

It's not a perfect world.
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11 comments:

  1. Kyle12 November, 2009 21:48

    Jayne:

    Could you post links to those two posts? Thanks :)

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  2. Stained12 November, 2009 21:57

    Maybe the person who posted them in the first place decided to remove them.....

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  3. samuraisam12 November, 2009 22:10

    Hey, I haven't seen those two posts; what probably happened is someone posted them, they ended up on RSS feeds/twitter and they removed the post pretty soon after for whatever reason they have chosen. I haven't personally deleted or removed anything recently however there are more than a dozen admins so anyone could have done anything. Haven't heard any complaints from the author that stuff has disappeared though.

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  4. Anonymous12 November, 2009 23:35

    I read them both on RSS feeds and yes, when I clicked the links to read some comments, I didn’t find them. I thought that Sam removed them for some “security” reasons, but now it's clear that it was not him :)

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  5. Em13 November, 2009 00:17

    i read them when they first came out. it looked like someone copy-pasted their thesis paper.

    while it would have been an interesting post, it was quite dull. I had a hunch they'd be removed.

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  6. Jayne13 November, 2009 08:59

    Ah, seems like its all to do with the RSS feed......
    Thanks for the explanation(s)

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  7. Mal13 November, 2009 19:38

    This article on UAE censorship was published by Akhbar newspaper, but it is entirely in Arabic. Maybe someone in the community can translate it? It's author is Dr Davidson

    http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/165124

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  8. hemlock14 November, 2009 02:50

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  9. Dubai Information14 November, 2009 05:14

    this was a carefully crafted one. read really well, but disappeared quick too. saw it the day it came out

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  10. Anonymous14 November, 2009 16:52

    Do you mean the al-akhbar article is censored in the UAE too?

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  11. Radha Stirling30 March, 2010 17:10

    They were my comments and I did not remove them. I noticed they were removed quite quickly and assumed they had been censored.

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