Information Highway... Detour Please!

I was googling recipes for injera and several pages I wanted to look at did not come up. Most interestingly, all the pages (political ones) that are blocked in Ethiopia don't come up here either.

I was really looking forward to catching up on those once I got here. Little did I know some stuff about Ethiopia is blocked.

It was rumored the Ethiopian Telecommunication used Chinese experts to block undesirable political websites from the sensitive eyes of the public... may be the same experts that do the deed in China just extended their services to the Ethiopian Government blocking the websites both in China and Ethiopia?

It is really annoying to look up something innocent on the web, only to find that several pages containing the information you want are blocked! You could google "baby food recipes" and half the pages you click on don't come up. The connection is fast though... quiet an upgrade from what I was used to in Ethiopia. Oh well!