Schema-Root.org banned in Uzbekistan
I received an email inquiry from a foreign embassy in Tashkent, asking why the Schema-Root Uzbekistan page did not contain any Uzbekistan news.
And so I was eager myself to know why it did not.
But when I looked at the page, it was full of Uzbekistan news.
I explained in my email answer that I could not reproduce the problem. I asked for a brief description of the page he was seeing, and noted that the Schema-Root.org Uzbekistan page has a map of Uzbekistan in it upper right corner.
I received another email in reply. It said that the page now has a large “X†where the map used to be, and that he thought the source of the problem was at his internet service provider. He enclosed the newsfeed that he was getting – and, sure enough, there was no Uzbekistan news there.
I imagine his email is being read, too.
I think a good method for combating such censorship might be to simply have more websites and blogs devoting attention to Uzbekistan.
And, by-the-way, Bush’s erstwhile collaboration with Uzbekistan puts the lie to any claim that he invaded Iraq to help make the region more democratic.