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Saudi Arabia blocked blahaj.zone (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn't see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and...

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parody🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there's trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what's next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It's so over guys, MBS said no more 196 😔

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm more suprised at the fact that they blocked such a small website, but i guess they really leave nothing left behind. I gotta be more careful on lemmy if that's the case.

And i know KSA is shitty, i really do, but i can't do shit about it. I'm not suprised they'd block a trans instance, just such a small one.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its what happens when horrible people have money to burn

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only a small percentage of saudi arabia live luxuriously, guess who's most of them? (Hint: they're a royal family) meanwhile, i've seen homeless people, starved to the bone (literally), without a single piece of clothing, sitting in the sweltering heat.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

yep. evil people with way too much money

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are very naive, and should probably be a lot more careful when in Saudi Arabia.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That's the thing, I thought Lemmy was too niche to be known about by the gov. I was wrong. I should cool it on the anti saud, pro republic stuff, this can get me in serious trouble.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Ye, this shit is no joke if you're actually inside the Kingdom! Exercise tight OpSec please!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Be more careful, and best of luck to you.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a way that's a downside too, it's now easier for shit regimes to block content they disagree with, without blocking the larger services. Less people will be disrupted by it, so less people will care. See: blocking Facebook,YouTube or WhatsApp vs. blocking a single activist site.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Thank god for VPNs though.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hey at least Lemmy is becoming popular enough for the authorities to block us.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Can't have shit in Saudi, not even Lemmy 😤

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

If I were in Saudi Arabia I'd be using a VPN anyways.

Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Easier said than done. At least, for the second one.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

geoblocked

"Geoblocking" would mean that it's blahaj who don't want saudis on their instance

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Damn 😔

yeah that was my bad, sorry

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Use Tor if you can, and people outside of these restrictive countries can help by running Snowflake in their regular browser.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Love tor, it's a lifesaver (literally :) ) and thank you for the tip!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Is it weird this makes me proud to be a blahaj user?

Like when a transphobic government starts hating, you know you’re doing something right.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol I'd tread a bit carefully.

KSA likes to chase people and have them "disappeared" for their opinions.

I know a guy they picked up for 3 months and when he finally showed up, his poor mouth was zippered shut.

And he was an international too.

I'd look around for a solid VPN solution anyway. Useful to have in any country.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

That's what i'm afraid of, too. Doing such risky things in the middle of the den of snakes. There isn't much they can do to a visitors like your friend, but they can do what they please to "threats" and dissidents like me.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

One of the first conversations I was on when I joined was one between Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, and some guy in a Middle Eastern country. Apparently his country had blocked lemmy.blahaj.zone at the national network level.

The Threadiverse is federated, so one could view posts from lemmy.blahaj.zone elsewhere, but not images, which did not propagate.

I thought that at some point, lemmy servers had started also storing images posted on other lemmy servers, but upon checking, it looks like they have not. I did run into one -- no longer up -- that had, according to the description, had apparently been modified to do this, probably to afford its users more privacy and not expose their IP addresses other than to their home instance. In theory, if you could find one that did so, you could make that your home instance and just rely on propagation of images through the network.

EDIT: It sounds from this year-old post like a lemmy instance can at least be configured to cache remote images:

https://futurology.today/post/6440

I suppose it'd be possible to go look and find out exactly what the current situation is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If i remember correctly after the downfall of reddit and the mass migration to Lemmy happened, A big issue was CSAM spreading across the Lemmy servers. Wouldn't surprise me that that is the cause that images are no longer stored across servers.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

My fuckers blocked catbox.moe, most western news sites and slowed down youtube traffic, but lemmy still flies under radar thankfully. I wish you still have your ways to choose what content you want to consume.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Well its Saudi Arabia after all. It isn't exactly known for being all that high on the freedom index. I'm sure you realize that though.

From a technical level there are ways to bypass censorship. The thing to keep in mind is that Saudi Arabia doesn't have any rights for citizens. The law can be enforced arbitrarily and you could just disappear one day. If you are looking for technical information on avoiding censorship I can try to help.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

texas will probably block us next.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pro tip: Don't "click here"!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

man that page is so fucking annoying, everything i try to open anything it's just blocked. All sites critical of islam/saudi/sauds, and alcohol/porn/and anything that they hate. Even tor and vpns are blocked, i need to use a mirror to get them, which may not always be safe (atleast for the VPN, tor has trusted mirrors)

ngl i think of running a vpn on my router, literally just not to see that fucking page anymore (and security too, ofc :) )

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Just as a heads-up: What you just wrote is an admission of a crime in SA. Everything you post on the fediverse is public. And you now know they're aware of Lemmy.
I hope you are absolutely sure whatever you're using to hide your identity is bomb-proof, and that you've never posted any identifying info under this account or any other one with the same username.

Edit: I found enough info about you in 10 minutes to dox you if I had access to SA government resources (birthday, -year, and -country, area in SA you currently live in, and very niche knowledge which at your age is likely what you're currently studying at a SA university). Be more careful, Tor doesn't do shit if you dox yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Saudi would take a hacksaw to them if they could

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone.

I suppose THEY is Saudi Arabia.
How can you be surprised about that? Saudi Arabia is a Sharia law country. An absolute shit stain of a country in many more ways than this.
You can get a death penalty for posting something against Sharia Law on any site. Actively using Lemmy could be enough to see you in jail.

MBS said no more 196

???

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The last line was a joke. Anyways yes it is about Saudi Arabia, and I'm no stranger to how shitty they are. I'm surprised that such a niche forum could be targeted, websites about trans stuff get banned all the time.

I knew this'd happen eventually, I just didn't know when.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m surprised that such a niche forum could be targeted,

If you can find it, authorities can too. Sounds like you are far from careful enough, considering where you are.

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