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Livejournal inaccessible in Kazakhstan

Categories: Kazakhstan

Blockpage Kazakhstan

This screen shot of a Kazakh Blockpage was taken when access to the popular blogging platform Livejournal.com has been blocked. Source: Blockpage Gallery [1]

Kazakh Internet users seem to be unable to access the popular blogging platform and social network Livejournal.com [2] through Kazakh major ISPs. According to Reuters Canada [3], only a small number of Kazakh Livejournal bloggers still can access the website through smaller ISPs or through the use of proxies. Livejournal.ru [4], however, seems to be accessible.

Kazakhtelecom's IT Director denied that his country is blocking access to Livejournal, while a spokesman for Russian online media firm SUP [5], which owns the blogging service, said “Livejournal itself was not blocking Kazakh users.”