Facebook Banned In Syria. How To Undo The Ban.



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Apparently the regime in Damascus has banned facebook. Gladly, it’s easy to get around that ban.

When Syria started banning websites, I wrote an entire post on how to undo the ban. But you don’t have to read the entire thing. It all boils down to two techniques. If one fails, the other will work.

1- Go to a “proxy website” like hidemyass.com and type the URL of the website in their box.

2- Install a small program in your computer that will make you invisible. (Download it Here or read How it works)

Done!

PS: If you read this and managed to browse to facebook, please spread the word on how you did it. Perhaps you can start a facebook group named “browsing from Syria”

Related Beirut Spring posts:

• Last month, I made an incredible google discovery on Lebanon. Check it out • Also, last September, I discovered that Google Earth now has images of “tent city” the opposition’s infamous camp.

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  1.  

    Excellent Beirut Spring for this :)

    Posted by Jester | November 21, 2007, 12:50 am

  2.  

    Brilliant Post!!!!!!!

    Posted by Ali | November 21, 2007, 10:36 am

  3.  

    [...] • In December of 2005, I argued that Lebanon should provide sanctuary for Syrian dissidents • Also, don’t forget to read the previous article on how the Syrians could get around the Facebook ban. [...]

    Posted by Syrians Flocking To Lebanon To Use Facebook | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog | November 21, 2007, 11:28 am

  4.  

    The problem is when the proxy sites are also blocked..

    Posted by Johnny | November 24, 2007, 12:56 am

  5.  

    hey mos, guess what, hidemyass.com is also banned, i’m in syria at the moment and checked to see if all the comotion of blocking facebook is true, and tried to use you idea but got blocked.
    i found this website: http://www.hide-ip.hornyproxy.net/, and i’m on facebook now, i’ll be start a new group, called free Facebook in syria, plz join in

    Posted by darko | December 9, 2007, 6:30 pm

  6.  

    hey Darko
    im in syria too nd guess wat , the website you found is also blocked. i guess we wont be using facebook for the summer :(

    Posted by Looney | July 14, 2008, 7:11 pm

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