Internet Filtering in Morocco

Posted by on December 6th, 2005. 2 comments... »
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Morocco has now joined the list of countries that filter. RSF reports:

Reporters Without Borders has verified that the arso.org, cahiersdusahara.com, cahiersdusahara.com, wsahara.net and spsrasd.info websites have all been rendered inaccessible in Morocco since 21 November. … A “connection failure” type of error message is displayed when someone tries to access one of these sites.

I can confirm (via proxy) that http://www.arso.org/ , http://cahiersdusahara.com/ , http://wsahara.net/ and http://www.spsrasd.info/ are blocked. The site http://www.afapredesa.org/ is also blocked. The IP addresses of all these sites are blocked. Blocking by IP address usually causes significant overblocking. In blocking these 5 sites, Morocco is actualy blocking 2287 domains.

Here is the breakdown:

134 on 81.221.254.29
1985 on 64.92.111.2
1 on 64.92.111.2
137 on 81.221.254.27
30 on 64.111.115.55

2 comments.

  1. […] (Cross-posted from ICE) […]

    Posted by OpenNet Initiative Blog » Blog Archive » Internet Filtering in Morocco on December 6th, 2005.

  2. I am in Morocco, and found that I could access all sites except for spsrasd.info. However, I have had great difficulty in regularly accessing livejournal, and am thinking that this site might be inadvertedly blocked through the use of the filtering software.

    Posted by 'Abdul Muhib on July 13th, 2006.

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