{"id":1874,"date":"2007-01-01T22:14:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2007-01-01T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:14:45","slug":"2007-1-1-wikipedia-blocks-qatar-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia blocks Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A Qatari server has been running spam attacks on the Wikipedia page for Qatar, so <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/01\/1248251&amp;from=rss\">Wikipedia has blocked its IP  address<\/a>. And that means that most Qataris are now unable to edit the page for their own country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country&#8217;s sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality &#8212; the majority of Al Jazeera journalists operate out of Qatar, for example. This raises a number of issues about internet connectivity in small countries &#8212; what other internet bottlenecks like this exist?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Actually this story has apparently turned out to be false (see comments) &#8212; sorry, and thanks for to those who let me know.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A Qatari server has been running spam attacks on the Wikipedia page for Qatar, so <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/01\/1248251&amp;from=rss\">Wikipedia has blocked its IP  address<\/a>. And that means that most Qataris are now unable to edit the page for their own country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country&#8217;s sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality &#8212; the majority of Al Jazeera journalists operate out of Qatar, for example. This raises a number of issues about internet connectivity in small countries &#8212; what other internet bottlenecks like this exist?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Actually this story has apparently turned out to be false (see comments) &#8212; sorry, and thanks for to those who let me know.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}