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Critical web sites are blocked in Ethiopia again

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

After unblocking access for the past week to web sites that are deemed critical, Meles Zenawi’s dictatorial regime in Ethiopia has made them inaccessible again starting yesterday.

Ethiopian Review associates in Addis Ababa confirmed today that all of the previously blocked web sites once again cannot be opened using the Internet service provided by the state-run Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC).

The U.S.-financed regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front ({www:Woyanne}) has made it illegal for private companies to provide Internet services in Ethiopia.

The government-owned telecom monopoly, ETC, is run by a former Woyanne intelligence officer named DebreTsion GebreMichael whose primary responsibility is to restrict access to information technology to as many people as possible. As a result, currently, there are only 30,000 Internet subscribers in Ethiopia out of 80 million people. Ethiopia has the least developed Information Technology infrastructure in the world, which is done intentionally by the vampire Woaynne regime.

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7 thoughts on “Critical web sites are blocked in Ethiopia again”

  3. After Arrest Warrant of Al Bashir, the TPLF gangs are scared to death. They know they maybe the next targets.

    My inside sources told me that the ICC is collecting evidence to issue worldwide arrest warnt to Melese Zenawi, Bereket Simon, Commander of the Agazi brige, Samora Yenus, Getcahew (head of security), Addisu Legese, Siye abreha right after October 2010 for crimes committed against innocent Ethiopians in Gambela, Awassa, Ugaden, Somali, Addis Ababa, Gonder, Oromia etc.

    Anyone with materail or documnet evidence that supporty TPLF/EPRDF’s crimes is advised to forward it to the ICC office at The Hague ASAP. Use the following contact address:

    #

    Information and Evidence Unit
    Office of the Prosecutor
    Post Office Box 19519
    2500 CM The Hague
    The Netherlands

    or sent by email to [email protected] ,
    or sent by facsimile to +31 70 515 8555

  4. Elias,

    This is what happened. When ETC technical team do maintenance on some of the main facility during fiber cable problems and taking traffic from the Sudan link to Djibouti link, the routers that handle the restrictions go out of use and the sites temporarily open as not all configurations are done similar. In short, they did not open them intentionally – it was a mistake done by the technicians which they warned them now for. These sites in Woyanne’s eye are not supposed to be open anytime. They did not know till you and others told them they are open otherwise they could have been open longer time. I have seen the same when the fiber network was having problem due to a ship destroying it in Egypt. It was open via the satellite for a couple of days and we could see these blogs.

    Thanks,
    Observer

  5. For Number11:

    Any internet service provider can black any website. For your info, youtube is blacked in the Sudan for its pornographic content.

    For Dagne: The list of websites blocked can only be listed by the web administrator in the service provider. But you can know if a website is blocked or not by trying to access within the country.

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