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Cuban bloggers being blocked by Google?

Friday, March 17, 2006 6:31:31 PM

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Some friend of mine told me about a possible situation between Cuban blogs and Blogger, of which their authors were being banned access to view and update/modify their content.

I immediately decided to try and see if I was still able to access my old blog at blogger, which I maintained before continuing my personal blog in the web site of the Opera Web Browser, and you can see that I was able to update it as I wrote this bilingual post about the situation. Nevertheless this doesn't prove anything, since Google may have blocked some and not all Cuban blogs. I am not aware of any Cuban blogger in a situation similar to the one described above.

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Anonymous Friday, March 17, 2006 11:13:17 PM

Andy Carvin writes: Apparently Blogger had a massive system failure this week, and many of its blogs worldwide were shut down. Are you still having access problems? Supposedly the problem has been fixed.

Ernestognapse Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:22:25 PM

As you can see above I never had problems, but I was informed of others having problems here in Cuba. Anyway, thanks for the information, as it may be the explanation of the incident.

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