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Subject: [Leica] Afghanistan Government Denies Access to Flickr & Blogspot
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:20:52 +0530
References: <6C9A58F8-38F4-4D0C-AF3D-160C0D8D819B@mac.com> <AANLkTik_O8pJJoymDWlfXY8dSs4g3Hg9Za4aYtarclK_@mail.gmail.com> <9292C5F4-7D84-41F0-9BC1-60290C110E77@frozenlight.eu>

Nathan,
That is also the autocracies that give you most of your oil.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> That's the democracy our soldiers are dying for.
>
> Nathan
>
> On 17 Jun, 2010, at 18:38 , Tina Manley wrote:
>
> > Good Lord!  I'm now a security threat to Afghanistan.  I knew I shouldn't
> > have posted that photo of Tom naked.  It probably crashed their
> computers.
> >
> > Hope you get uncensored service soon, Hugh!
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Hugh Thompson <hewthompson at mac.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't yet know if it is universal in Afghanistan, but our service
> >> provider has started to intercept any Flickr or Blogspot web site, and
> puts
> >> up a notice, "Access denied by the Government of Afghanistan".  So I
> cannot
> >> follow Tina's construction blog for instance.
> >>
> >> As yet I have not assessed how many other communal sites are effected.
>  I
> >> will be seeing Wendy tomorrow and will check if it is the same with her
> >> provider.
> >>
> >> Fun and games - I just hope they don't find the LUG Galleries, with all
> >> that politically motivated material.
> >>
> >> Hugh
> >>
> >> hewthompson at mac.com
> >> Kabul, Afghanistan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
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> >
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>
> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
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> Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman
> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Afghanistan Government Denies Access to Flickr & Blogspot)
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