Apparently Caucasus Online, an internet provider in Georgia, uses Turkey’s service network, as it is reported that internet users in Georgia are now also unable to visit sites from Blogger and *.blogspot.com domains.
A solution for Windows users to “unblock” Blogger and YouTube has been posted here:
Find the file named “hosts” under windows/system32/drivers/etc/
folder.
Open this file with NotepadAppend those lines
72.14.207.191 blogger.com
209.85.165.191 www.blogger.com
208.117.236.69 youtube.com www.youtube.com
208.117.236.70 youtube.com www.youtube.comSave and close it.
This solved my problems, I posted as if there is no ban.
More about this solution can be read by clicking here.
So, no more this:
This is bad though. It’s one thing that Turkey decides to ban a whole domain based on poor logic, but it affecting people in another country makes it a lot worse.
Some useful links to unblock YouTube/Blogger (blogspot)/other blocked pages in Turkey (and Georgia):
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Comments
3 responses to “Georgia affected by Turkey’s ban on Blogger”
It seems this has really affected you. Yea, like I said before there’s a lot of ways to get around it.
The problem is work-arounds don’t fix the real problem 😥 that’s going on over there. I’m always surprised when governments do silly things like blocking a ‘single’ website.
I am glad you’ve gotten around it though!
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