Blogger blogs redirection

[deepsand]

The isolation is really based on the region/IP redirects. Whatever ccTLD you access the blog from should cause you to redirect to your local ccTLD. If that blog is blocked in that country then you are denied access.

Implementation wise they could have just stuck to the .com domain and block people by IPregion/blog combination. Maybe the use of ccTLDs is there to make the censoring countries feel better about it: All the people in your country will get redirected to a domain in your country. We will use that to switch off whatever blogs you don't like people in your country seeing.

Without using ccTLDs they'd need to add and maintain Country level flags to all Blogger accounts. Presumably the use of ccTLDs is the easier method.

Implying the country restriction can be easily bypassed.

I'm not sure that that is the case. Other advice on the official Blogger board is inconsistent with that. No surprise there.

[murphypj]

Without using ccTLDs they'd need to add and maintain Country level flags to all Blogger accounts. Presumably the use of ccTLDs is the easier method.


I'm not sure that that is the case. Other advice on the official Blogger board is inconsistent with that. No surprise there.

Still haven't experienced this on my own Blogger blog. But there is certainly a concerted and worldwide attempt to de-globalize the internet, and make things easier for tighter control by the Governments of individual countries. SOPA and PIPA are sleeping, but there WILL be a sequel. The Irish govt. has used a 'statutory instrument' to implement SOPA-like legislation, bypassing the normal constitutional discussing, debating and passing of legislative acts by both Houses. Does anyone else feel the 'net closing in ( excuse the pun ... )

[deepsand]

But there is certainly a concerted and worldwide attempt to de-globalize the internet, and make things easier for tighter control by the Governments of individual countries. SOPA and PIPA are sleeping, but there WILL be a sequel. The Irish govt. has used a 'statutory instrument' to implement SOPA-like legislation, bypassing the normal constitutional discussing, debating and passing of legislative acts by both Houses. Does anyone else feel the 'net closing in ( excuse the pun ... )

A driving force behind the move by some to create alternative DNS systems.

[deepsand]

Implying the country restriction can be easily bypassed.

Afterthought - That will work only if Google both:

• Scripts the re-directs, with the /ncr switch causing such re-direction to be bypassed; and,
• Replicates the blog on both the COM TLD and the ccTLD.

[Shadders]

If this is a permanent change with no way around it then it would be another reason to switch to using a custom domain with blogger.

[deepsand]

If this is a permanent change with no way around it then it would be another reason to switch to using a custom domain with blogger.

Given that a Blogger "custom domain" is still a site that is hosted by Google (ghs.google.com), such can easily be subjected to the same sort of redirection as regular Blogger sub-domains.