Via my friend Erin who will be in Ethiopia in a few weeks (she’s leading a team who will build houses as part of the Habitat for Humanity project):

Numerous blogs, in fact all that utilize the Blogger platform, are inaccesible from within [Ethiopia]. There goes my idea to write about my trip while in Shashemene next month…

This action is indicative of a much larger problem than simply thwarting my silly travel musings. Amnesty International, alongside the Observer, have begun a campaign called “irrepressible.info” bent on ending online repression of speech.