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Piczo in the UAE

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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I live in the UAE, Dubai to be exact. I am a sad person with no life and therefore have a piczo site. Ok I do have a life, it can be exciting at times but thats not the point. The point is...Piczo keeps on getting blocked by etisalt, now I dont know if anyone else on here lives in the UAE/Dubai but about two months ago piczo was blocked for about a week and OMG people were pretty ticked off by it. Now etisalt (the inernet/phone provider here in the UAE yes we only have one we are pretty 1337) said it was accidently blocked. Myspace had always been blocked before so when piczo was unblocked people started asking why myspace was still blocked theres pretty much the same stuff on it isnt there? So yeah now thats unblocked. Then last month Hi5 was blocked (some might know of it a lot of the local guys here get thier kicks from it cause they get all these girls MSNs) and again people got annoyed, 7Days was full of ranting letters and so it was unblocked. About two weeks down the line I go to log on to my site, and its blocked, about four hours later its up and running again, not a lot of people noticed it this time cause it was early morning. Yesterday AGAIN piczo was blocked for the whole day and this afternoon it was unblocked due to quite stressy letters once again in 7Days. Now my question is (now that you know the story) WHY THE HELL DO THE KEEP BLOCKING IT!!! :eek2: It's so annoying if Proxy Settings find something anti-islamic (namely girls in bikinis or you know stuff like that) just block THAT site!!! Not all of them! :banghead: But yeah everytime the phone company say it was an error etc...bt how can it happen over and over again?! :crazyeyes

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    does using a proxy website not work?

    a few people have used something like that to view surfcontrol blocked webpages whilst at college.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    you could try using an http tunnel, although generally used for bypassing firewall censorship it might work. there's a few about, an example being http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/

    but I guess living in Saudi it's to be expected, I dont know much about the politics there other than the government probably going to be keen on censoring anything it thinks is "blasphemous".

    dont wana get your hands chopped off now really do you?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Replicant wrote:
    you could try using an http tunnel, although generally used for bypassing firewall censorship it might work. there's a few about, an example being http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/

    but I guess living in Saudi it's to be expected, I dont know much about the politics there other than the government probably going to be keen on censoring anything it thinks is "blasphemous".

    dont wana get your hands chopped off now really do you?

    Saudi Arabia not-equal.gif Dubai. In fact, Dubai is set to be the tourist capital of the world in a few years, extremely heavy investment going on over there now. I don't recall people getting their hands chopped off over there. Generalisations are dangerous, and not usually accurate (unless it's about Americans ;) just kidding...).

    There are ways to get around it if you wish to do so. Otherwise, I'd just keep complaining. Write a letter, lobby someone, stage a protest etc. etc.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    TheShyBoyInTheCorner wrote:
    Saudi Arabia not-equal.gif Dubai. In fact, Dubai is set to be the tourist capital of the world in a few years, extremely heavy investment going on over there now. I don't recall people getting their hands chopped off over there. Generalisations are dangerous, and not usually accurate (unless it's about Americans ;) just kidding...).

    There are ways to get around it if you wish to do so. Otherwise, I'd just keep complaining. Write a letter, lobby someone, stage a protest etc. etc.


    ooh, yeah, sorry, completely misread :blush:

    Dubai also home to some very rich people though, even less sure about the government there... but it is fair to say that if the govt had strong religious views it probably would be proactive in censoring anything it didnt like.

    generalisations are fun :p especially when they're tongue-in-cheek like mine was intended to be :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes i live in dubai its not so uptight about the rules...just no PDAs or drinking under 21 but yeah not that that stops a lot of people. I dont really see why people would want to come here on holiday here. i guess its cause ive lived here so long but i love it! :D and no it is not full of rich people thats compleate bull, its so expensive here its hard to live really. I mean if your rolling in it fine but onther than that nah...its still looooovely tho...amazing cars lol but anyway yeah i tryed http and using the IP no luck on funtigo ghey but yeah its oki now...for now!!!
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