Stuff that doesn’t work in Morocco

I currently live in North Africa, Morocco to be specific. For the most part, I am very pleased with my internet service provider (Maroc Telecom). Up/download speeds are consistently good, and I almost never have downtime. There have been very occasional service issues, but those could be just as easily attributed to my language skills as to the company.

I do have a major complaint, though. The big thing is that there are some services and content being blocked here. Here is my list, at least the things I know of and can recall right now.

Google Earth, OpenDNS, LiveJournal, anonymizer.com, multiproxy.org, and on occasion You Tube.

I realize this could be thwarted using a proxy like JAP or by using TOR, but I don’t need any of these enough to do that, and it isn’t the main point of my little rant.

All I’m doing today is drawing some attention to the issue. If you are interested in reading further, please take a look at the Global Voices advocacy site and MoTIC (French).

11 comments January 15th, 2008