Iran Bans Blogrolling.com
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Blogging, General Politics, Technology, The WorldThe blogosphere is powerful because of the many connections between us. I look in my referral files and am continually amazed at the shear amount of blogs that are starting to link to us on a daily basis and have Donklephant in their blogroll.
Not it seems as if Iran doesn’t want people to link to each other. Well, one our sister blogs on the Weblog Empire, Blog Herald, is saying that Iran is specifically banning blogrolling.com, so I guess they’re only trying to make it harder.
Still, it’s a big DHM.
Iran has ordered all Iranian ISPs to filter and block the popular blog roll hosting service blogrolling.com.The service is said to be popular among Iranian bloggers, the largest blogging community in the Middle East.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers writes that many Iranian bloggers perceive this as an ‘attack’ on the Persian blogosphere.
Personally, I can’t think of a better advertisement for Blogrolling. Start creating the ads now guys!
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August 16th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
[...] So Donklephant’s story today about Iran blocking blogrolling.com came as a bit of a surprise. As Justin points out, the blogosphere is all about connecting people and Iran is clearly trying to stop this. From this we can assume that the free exchange of ideas is perceived as being dangerous by the Mullahs. What’s next - Blogger.com? Google.com? [...]