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Saudi Arabia blocked blahaj.zone (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by fxomt@lemm.ee to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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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 😔

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 hours ago

texas will probably block us next.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

I wish this was a joke but these days I wouldn't put it past them. I don't think it would hold up terribly well since the US doesn't have any form of advanced censorship.

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[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago

Sorry to hear that, hopefully it will turn out all right for trans people in the US.

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[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 107 points 10 hours ago

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 54 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 64 points 9 hours ago

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 32 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm more suprised at the fact that they blocked such a small website, but i guess they really leave nothing left behind. I gotta be more careful on lemmy if that's the case.

And i know KSA is shitty, i really do, but i can't do shit about it. I'm not suprised they'd block a trans instance, just such a small one.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 24 points 9 hours ago

its what happens when horrible people have money to burn

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

You are very naive, and should probably be a lot more careful when in Saudi Arabia.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 19 points 9 hours ago

That's the thing, I thought Lemmy was too niche to be known about by the gov. I was wrong. I should cool it on the anti saud, pro republic stuff, this can get me in serious trouble.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 8 hours ago

Ye, this shit is no joke if you're actually inside the Kingdom! Exercise tight OpSec please!

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[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

I'm a way that's a downside too, it's now easier for shit regimes to block content they disagree with, without blocking the larger services. Less people will be disrupted by it, so less people will care. See: blocking Facebook,YouTube or WhatsApp vs. blocking a single activist site.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Federated content gets around that though.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 hours ago

My fuckers blocked catbox.moe, most western news sites and slowed down youtube traffic, but lemmy still flies under radar thankfully. I wish you still have your ways to choose what content you want to consume.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago

That sounds worse, what country are you living in? Sorry to hear it. And thanks for the wishes :)

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago

The Motherland, of course. I was born into her teenage phase of 90\00s and now I see her rapidly becoming one young and salty widow (:

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 8 points 7 hours ago

Oh dear, hearing anything about russia almost makes me proud to a saudi :).

Through our suffering, we are brothers 😂

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago

Hell yeah. We a cockroaches in their kitchen, never surrender and always persist whatever they like us or not 😉

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 6 points 5 hours ago

How's life for you besides internet censorship, if you don't mind me asking. I'm just curious. Good luck out there!

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 hours ago

Saudi would take a hacksaw to them if they could

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago

MBS's wet dream every night.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone.

I suppose THEY is Saudi Arabia.
How can you be surprised about that? Saudi Arabia is a Sharia law country. An absolute shit stain of a country in many more ways than this.
You can get a death penalty for posting something against Sharia Law on any site. Actively using Lemmy could be enough to see you in jail.

MBS said no more 196

???

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The last line was a joke. Anyways yes it is about Saudi Arabia, and I'm no stranger to how shitty they are. I'm surprised that such a niche forum could be targeted, websites about trans stuff get banned all the time.

I knew this'd happen eventually, I just didn't know when.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 26 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

One of the first conversations I was on when I joined was one between Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, and some guy in a Middle Eastern country. Apparently his country had blocked lemmy.blahaj.zone at the national network level.

The Threadiverse is federated, so one could view posts from lemmy.blahaj.zone elsewhere, but not images, which did not propagate.

I thought that at some point, lemmy servers had started also storing images posted on other lemmy servers, but upon checking, it looks like they have not. I did run into one -- no longer up -- that had, according to the description, had apparently been modified to do this, probably to afford its users more privacy and not expose their IP addresses other than to their home instance. In theory, if you could find one that did so, you could make that your home instance and just rely on propagation of images through the network.

EDIT: It sounds from this year-old post like a lemmy instance can at least be configured to cache remote images:

https://futurology.today/post/6440

I suppose it'd be possible to go look and find out exactly what the current situation is.

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