Beltelecom again blocked opposition sites

As during the presidential elections of 2001 and 2006, today, on December 19, 2010, on the day of voting at the presidential elections in Belarus, opposition websites stopped working again. According to a good tradition, the filtering is carried out by the resources of the state-owned monopoly provider Beletelecom, which owns all external Internet channels.



Traffic shaping is performed by the “Chinese method”, and such protection can be circumvented through an anonymous proxy .



In addition to opposition sites (charter97.org, electroname.com, ucpb.org, and others), all major mail providers, including Gmail (so that the Charter does not send news to subscribers), ICQ service, Google Docs service, and some others, are also blocked. sites. Some human rights activists and activists blocked phones. At the same time, Google Reader, Facebook and Skype are completely free. Therefore, the Charter'97 website has completely logically moved to Facebook and broadcasts news there . The same news can be read through Google Reader.