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Bahrain’s Ministry of Information – Option to Unblock Sites But…
Here I am, another blogger protesting the Ministry of Information of Bahrain decision to BLOCK websites. Stuff that they have blocked ranges from pornography (ok some countries around here do that anyways…) to informational sites like AskMen and even NEWSPAPER sites!!… Hell, my web host provider is blocked for some reason (luckily I don’t need to visit their site to make payments or support).
This Internet “filter” that has been deployed is here to protect our little fragile minds, basically we are being treated like kids, the parent being the MoI. Isn’t it the responsibility of parents to watch what their kids do online instead of the government? Seriously this is so unbelievable that I don’t know what else to say. The silly thing is that you are redirect to http://www.anonymous.com.bh, why? It’s not like we don’t know who’s blocking the sites… Screenshot below:
Anyways, there are ways to bypass the block: proxies, public VPN services, TOR etc… But wait, proxies=blocked, free AND paid VPN services=blocked and TOR=blocked. Right now the only way I can think of to bypass this block is to run your own VPN server and connect through it (I have a guide for this, take a look before my blog gets blocked…).
Recently, there has been a slight improvement to this block system: an option to unblock!! Yes finally, enter some details (some private: your name and email) and I guess they review the site again to check if it should be blocked. But, the big but, the biggest but: IT DOESN’T WORK FFS!! I suggest you keep trying and maybe the server crash or they fix it: http://www.unblock.gov.bh
That’s it for my rant. Time to access some blocked sites!