[Qatar-pm] What material does Qtel block?

[Kutch]

How about the following sites;
www.thepiratebay.com <- Torrent Search Engine
www.metacafe.com <- Media Sharing same with YouTube

They block everything what they feel to be blocked, they really don't know  
how to alter site contents....

I found one site Looks cool www.qhell.com :))

Thanks SSH I can access everything with out any pain-in-the-ass by Q Hell!



On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:39:46 +0300, Nigel Gourlay <nigel at qatarjournal.com>  
wrote:

> Last week, Qtel gave an interview to Gulf Times, explaining the
> criteria it uses for blocking websites [1]. I wanted to know whether,
> in reality, Qtel blocked "pornography, political criticism of Gulf
> countries and anti-Islamic sites."
>
> Alexa.com provides rankings of the popularity of websites. I
> downloaded their list of the global top 500 sites, and used a Perl
> script to find out whether each site was blocked by Qtel's filter.
>
> Out of 500 sites, 47 sites (9%) were blocked by Qtel.
>
> I found that, out of these 47 sites, 38 (81%) were devoted to
> pornography, none contained political criticism of Gulf countries, and
> none were anti-Islamic. The blocked sites not devoted to pornography
> were as follows:
>
>  http://www.vkontakte.ru/ - Russian social networking site
>  http://www.yourfilehost.com/ - File hosting services
>  http://www.anonym.to/ - Link anonymizer
>  http://www.torrentspy.com/ - Bit Torrent search engine
>  http://www.flurl.com/ - Video sharing
>  http://www.o2.pl/ - Polish web portal
>  http://www.newgrounds.com/ - Flash gallery
>  http://www.wrzuta.pl/ - Polish video/image/audio sharing
>  http://www.broadcaster.com/ - Videos and webcams
>
> These sites fall into two main categories.
>  * Media-sharing and community sites that have been overblocked
> (thousands of harmless pages blocked for each offensive page).
>  * Tools to avoid Qtel's filter.
>
> Links
> [1] http://qatarjournal.com/article.pl?sid=07/09/18/1842215
> [2] http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none
> [3] http://tor.eff.org/
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