As reported by different users on Twitter; Egypt seems to have blocked access to online publishing platform, Medium. Users have reported not being able to access Medium website and applications. For those of you who don’t know, Medium is a publishing platform; founded and run by Evan Williams, Co-Founder of Twitter. The platform hosts all types of writers; from amateurs to accomplished professional bloggers and authors. All the users who’ve reported the block on Twitter are clearly not happy with it.
Mohammed, a user on Twitter notes that dozens of websites have been blocked in last few days.
41 websites have been blocked in Egypt Since 24May. Today @Medium website blocked.#Egyptcensors
— Mohammad (@MoEltaher) June 10, 2017
Those blocked websites include Al Jazeera & Huntington Post Arabic as well.
So #Egypt government After Stupid Censorship waves, started Now to blocking a whole blogging platform @Medium !
— 𝖆𝖍𝖒𝖊𝖉 𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖎 🕺🏻 (@elmansi) June 11, 2017
cc: @MediumEng @ev pic.twitter.com/AZJfi3JlgE
Zaid Benjamin who describes himself as Washington Correspondent of Radio Sawa on his Twitter Profile suggested that Medium was being used by pro-Muslim Brotherhood websites to bypass government block.
Reports of #Egypt blocking Medium, online publishing platform, which is used by pro-Muslim Brotherhood websites to bypass government block.
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) June 10, 2017
Everyone seems to be frustrated with decision.
So, now @Medium is not working in #Egypt anymore! WTF is happening in this country!#Medium #BlockedByGov
— Shadi Kamal Kandil (@shadi_casper) June 11, 2017
And questioning its logic.
Oh, Should we now start using #VPN to access @medium from Egypt.
— Mina E. Aziz (@minaeaziz) June 11, 2017
Really!!
Seriously!!!
That is mere stupidity.
It’s not clear why the website has been banned. There’s no official word about it, yet. We’ve reached out to Medium and will update this story if we hear back from them.
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