The Syrian Domari yesterday became the first blog to be censored in Syria.
Syria Mirror reported today that the Syrian Computer Society, one of two government-owned internet service providers in Syria, has blocked access to the Syrian Domari. The unprecedented move comes 2 months after anonymous bloggers launched Al Domari in November 2005. The blog uses satire, cartoons and pictures to criticize the current political situation in Syria.
I am currently outside Syria. Can bloggers in Syria confirm the news?
UPDATE (1/30): The SCS has unblocked Al Domari. This was confirmed by the Domari guys themselves. Earlier, Gottfried had complained to SCS and received an interesting (also very frank and informative!) reply: "We are not responsible of blocking any site, there is a security department who is responsible of that." Read the comments for more.
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