Saudi Arabia blocked blahaj.zone (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by fxomt@lemm.ee to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn't see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and...

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parody🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there's trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what's next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It's so over guys, MBS said no more 196 😔

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[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 month ago

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm more suprised at the fact that they blocked such a small website, but i guess they really leave nothing left behind. I gotta be more careful on lemmy if that's the case.

And i know KSA is shitty, i really do, but i can't do shit about it. I'm not suprised they'd block a trans instance, just such a small one.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You are very naive, and should probably be a lot more careful when in Saudi Arabia.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That's the thing, I thought Lemmy was too niche to be known about by the gov. I was wrong. I should cool it on the anti saud, pro republic stuff, this can get me in serious trouble.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ye, this shit is no joke if you're actually inside the Kingdom! Exercise tight OpSec please!

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Hey at least Lemmy is becoming popular enough for the authorities to block us.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Can't have shit in Saudi, not even Lemmy 😤

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

If I were in Saudi Arabia I'd be using a VPN anyways.

Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Easier said than done. At least, for the second one.

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[-] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Proton works in China if you set the protocol to "stealth" in the setting, maybe that works for Saudi as well?

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Proton works in China if you set the protocol to “stealth” in the setting

With or without alternative routing?

[-] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Without.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Wait so the "great firewall" doesn't block Proton VPN IP addresses? That's interesting.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

They don't blacklist IP addresses generally, though some are certainly blocked. But normally they run deep packet inspections and block traffic that is identified as VPN traffic based on certain header data. That's what makes the firewall "great" in the first place; many other countries simply block a range of IP addresses, and all it takes is for the VPN provider to switch the IP in their data warehouse. That's trivial and takes seconds, and many providers rotate their IPs on a regular basis to prevent blocks in the first place.

Because of the deep packet inspection, OpenVPN and wireguard as protocols are entirely useless in China whatsoever, for example. Stealth mode AFAIK is using a modified wireguard protocol that obfuscates certain headers and thereby avoids detection (for now).

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It works without stealth here, too. It's a little slow, tho. granted, i am using the free version.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Ah ok, I've got the paid version. If you happen to be or know a student, they offer a 50% discount through studentbeans.com, only $2.50 a month.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Good advice, thank you :)

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It is not realistic to think the saudi government cared that much about this. The way it works is someone send a request to block the site. If there are banned words including “sex” then it will be block. You can request for it to be unblock and say it’s a social media site. They have different rules. Remember reddit is not blocked.

[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 1 month ago

same vibe as queer.af

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

lmao, what's with islamists and gay sites??

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The Qur'an?

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It's not like they really care about it anyway.

Yeah, i hate gay people just as god intended, but i literally break every single law in the quran beyond that.

Every Saudi royal

I also don't remember a verse in the quran mentioning hacking a man then dissolving his corpse in acid, must be in surat al-baqarah...

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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't know Saudi can block fediverse instances

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A lot of websites are blocked here.

Porn (60,000 BLOCKED PORN SITES!), alcohol/drug stores, Gay sites (from blogs to forums, anything), anti islam websites like wikiislam, and just non-muslim religious shit in general. we have a lot of banned christian sites. And news sites like middleeasteye.net

VPNs + tor is also banned too.

For some reason, israel.com + idf.il are also blocked. weird considering saudi-israel's relationship.

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