flickr is blocked by my ISP!
Posted: November 7th, 2005 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: UAE, Web2.0 | 2 Comments »I was browsing a blog which I am subscribed to it’s feeds. 
The entry had some photos, and vacation shots in which the author wrapped up in a flickr stream, I click on the photo thumbnail and bam! a message came out saying :
The site you are trying to visit has been blocked!
But Why?
I understand that some of the content on flickr might not be proper for everyone, might not be useful, or might even be unethical, but hey it’s Internet and you got choices!
I don’t understand what was exactly that made flickr be blocked by my ISP. Was it porn? was it offensive photos? or what was it exactly reported on? the issue is not in blocking, because there are still many ways to access flickr, but the point is, couldn’t they just block the offensive or unethical material according to their check list from being accessed instead of the whole service? it might be expensive and time consuming but it’s for the major good.
Wrong time & wrong place
A huge success! flickr fast became a tradition and a lifestyle. It’s a blog true visual mate! It extremely fast became one of the ways people share moments, feelings, and all the life activities on still images. This tradition is going to be stopped at this point of the world to many sharing and Internet-happy people unless another service gets popular here.
Another problem is that many sites and blogs that fetch images from flickr and syndicate the streams are going to be viewed incomplete thus, the web-browsing experience is going to become poor for blog readers! Now that’s bad. Beleive me that’s poor web-browsing!
The problem with the timing is because it’s the Web2.0 era. Whilst web is enjoying another momentum and the social web-software is gaining more popularity and is enhancing the way people exchange data/information; such a valuable service is going to be discontinued. It’s sad! Although power-users would get around this issue the vast majority will not; which concludes the death of flickr in this part of the world.
Below is the screenshot of the blocking screen.
Any of your ISPs blocked flickr? Share the misery.
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Update! I could open flickr without using any proxy breaking or anonymous browsing!
It’s been see-sawing since yesterday, it’s blocked and not blocked. Hope it gets stabalized and becomes unblocked!
Yet another update! flickr is blocked again as of November 23rd. Now this is really uncool. What’s the deal again? At least some PR action from Etisalat to let us know what’s up?! Some Etisalat blog maybe? Some journal, announcment, or whatever?!