Is WordPress (.com) currently accessible in Saudi Arabia?

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 12:50 am

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  Does anyone know?

  Thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  wpgaurav · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 3:11 am

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  Yes! It is available in Saudi Arabia. Try this search to get few blogs operated in S.A. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wordpress.com+saudi+arabia

  To read arabian blogs http://ar.wordpress.com

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  wpgaurav · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 3:13 am

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  http://susieofarabia.wordpress.com/
  is a blog of an American-Arabian woman, who blogs from Jeddah.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 10:17 pm

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  Thanks.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 10:18 pm

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  … although those blogs might be using proxies.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 8:57 pm

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  Actually, I can report that I am now in Saudi Arabia and (as I suspected) I can read, but not edit or write my blog.

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 9:35 pm

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  There’s always Tor or Post by Email.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  Tor is a good idea. Thanks. The position in Saudi Arabia is that editing is blocked … most of the time. There are few minutes every hour when you can slip through the firewall. I’m not sure whether this is a minor concession or just inefficiency. I remember the same situation here several years ago.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 10:04 pm

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  … and it isn’t that simple either because Tor is blocked!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2011 at 1:24 am

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  Try Post By email then, or possibly an offline blog editor like Blogdesk. And yes, officially it’s blocked there, same as in China. There are ways around that. Tor is a good one, but there are lots of proxies you can use: Anonymous has a list of them.

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  davidderrick · Member · Aug 7, 2011 at 5:27 am

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  Thanks.

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  alwayssunni · Member · Aug 7, 2011 at 5:57 am

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  Everyone I know in Saudi Arabia has satellite internet that doesn’t go through KACST’s censors. It’s technically illegal, but very common, and I’ve never heard of a Westerner being punished for it. You might want to consider doing that.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2011 at 9:16 am

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  Good idea! And I recall someone saying the universities don’t lock WP.com out of their connections.