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Google Blogspot Domestic IP Address Blocking Confirmed

ab5cvjl@yahoo.com
1 Jun 2006 12:59:39 -0700

I discovered, thanks to Google, a sourced report,
http://www.cotse.com/20060516.html , that Google is blocking domestic
IP addresses.

"Google owns Blogspot and has blocked users of our privacy service
from accessing Blogspot."

Per its site, cotse operates a service similar to secure tunnel and
anonymizer. I have heard it is popular in China.

It is not hard to see why Google Blogspot would do this. In
connection with Blogspot blocking in Ethiopia and Pakistan, several
bloggers have noted that these proxy services provide a way around
censorship, including posting. Google, in its never ending effort to
support censoring governments, is blocking a path by which people
could access and post information despite the blocks.

But what Google has done here goes beyond helping repressive foreign
governments keep information from their own people. It is now
censoring Americans, who are the primary users of these services, from
accessing Blogspot who seek to preserve their privacy in reading
blogs, like they do when they read a newspaper.

By blocking access to Americans, Google is not only inteferring with
American's rights to privacy, it is violating the rights of
Californians, Google's home state, where the State Constution
explicitly declares a right of privacy of its citizens.

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