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The UAE’s major ISP, Etisalat, appears to have blocked Facebook. Users are reportedly seeing either an Arabic message explaining the block (shown below), or simply seeing a bogus 404 page when attempting to access Facebook. Earlier this year, the UAE temporarily blocked Orkut.
Disabling social networks is becoming increasingly popular in repressive regimes, with Facebook recently being blocked in Iran, and China blocking bloggers on LiveJournal earlier this year.
Facebook users in the UAE have setup a petition to try and prevent the nation from blocking the site.
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