WordPress disabled in Russia

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  alexei800 · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 5:06 am

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  My Internet provider says that the access to my website http://alexei800.wordpress.com/ (and, maybe to the entire WordPress.com) has been disabled pursuant to a decision of the court of the city of Ulyanovsk here in Russia, because an “extremist” website kind of koran.wordpress.com is hosted on the same IP address. How can I have my website restored?

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

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 5:26 am

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  this might help a bit – WordPress.COM supports free speech, so they will not take the offending blog down unless it violates the WordPress.COM Terms of Service

  raincoaster reblogged this on raincoaster media and commented:

  Since Russia has started blocking WP.com and interfering with people’s right to freely share their words, it looks like it’s time to reblog this. Lorelle is THE authority. While the article is several years old, so it a lot of Putin’s tech, so good luck!

  How to Access Banned WordPress.com Blogs

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:28 am

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  There are ways to get around such things.