A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn’t see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and…

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parody🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there’s trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what’s next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It’s so over guys, MBS said no more 196 😔

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I didn’t know Saudi can block fediverse instances

    • fxomt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      A lot of websites are blocked here.

      Porn (60,000 BLOCKED PORN SITES!), alcohol/drug stores, Gay sites (from blogs to forums, anything), anti islam websites like wikiislam, and just non-muslim religious shit in general. we have a lot of banned christian sites. And news sites like middleeasteye.net

      VPNs + tor is also banned too.

      For some reason, israel.com + idf.il are also blocked. weird considering saudi-israel’s relationship.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Thats even worse then i Live(Which most of the stuff are blocked are Vpns,Porn sites and some lgbtq sites i am pretty sure btw am not in saudi am living in a country bordering it)
        Tor isnt blocked here

        • fxomt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Oh, are you in the UAE or Qatar? Saudi arabia has the most strict censorship in the middle east, i think.

          And يا هلا, دحين متأكد في على أقل 4 عرب على ليمي :)

          • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Am living in qatar and am from Syria so it counts am Arab (am literate at the language tho)