Looks like another country is hot on the tail of Google service blockage.
This latest place is Myanmar, otherwise known as the Union of Burma in Southeast Asia, bordered by Tibet, Peoples Republic of China, and Laos.
Burma is a country tightly controlled by its military Government, and has been by 1992. Thus is probably why they have blocked Google.com and Gmail services. The largest ISP in the area has stated that users are prompted with Access Denied when trying to access these services.
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(Page 1)2. This is not unnusual or surprising unfortunately. The only interesting thing is how long they have taken to do it. Unfortunately the whole country is blocked from nearly all foreign media, so most email providers are blocked.
The fact that Google is relatively new compared to Yahoo and Hotmail is the only reason it's been allowed for so long.
Posted at 11:50AM on Jul 2nd 2006 by Fergus Macdonald
3. I would like to mention that the neighbor includes India and Thailand.
Posted at 10:52AM on Jul 5th 2006 by Anoop Varghese
4. I live and teach in Thailand, and yes, Thailand does border Burma ;) I know firsthad the oppression Burma places upon its people, as they made me go inside my hotel around 9pm --curfew time. Though I have many burmese students who are just wonderful.
Its interesting that the other southeastern countries don't meddle in Burma's dictatorial government--the reason is because the Asean pact requires all countries in the area respect each other's sovereinty and autonomy.
Posted at 11:11AM on Jul 20th 2006 by Living Abroad
1. I have an idea: Google should make their own operating system. That'd be sick! what would be even better is if it could dual boot on macs as well. i would probably marry google then.
Posted at 3:05AM on Jul 2nd 2006 by macosxpanther