Orkut is Blocked!!!

Wow...the other day I was wondering about the stupidity of my ISP and was thinking about ways in which it could degrade the quality of this stinking hellhole of a miserable experience that I like to call "Browsing the net using dial up with a paranoid Big Bro proxy watching over my back".

Then, I get a call from my good friend yesterday...Of course as I spend most of my time sleeping or reading, there was a 50% chance he couldn't reach me. When he finally did, he informed me about this incident, I wasn't well too shocked as it was already blocked by the UAE University server and I figured that the trend would surely catch on. Anyway, it seems that my poor buddy was "orkutting" so as to speak, when this happened. To quote him, "one sec I was there, next sec I was not".

Ouch.....

Well, I did some meticulous research (which is an euphemism for I did a quick Google search) and found out that somebody actually feared people were using the site to find sexual partners!!!

Now I don't deny that the claim is 100% false, but come on...whats next? Will they ban mobile phones coz guys and girls who aren't married will use it to talk with each other? Or destroy television sets coz they can be used to...I don't know, "culturally inappropriate material"?

On a funnier note, it seems orkut can still be accessed from the Media City and all iZones (the wireless hotspots in UAE are called iZones). I smell a conspiracy here, Etisalat is tired of its new rival Du, slowly but surely taking a good chunk out of the mobile services sector. So, I think it is trying to force more and more people to take other costlier services so that they can maintain their exorbitant profits.

Damn...I am in a bad mood now....