This morning, MoTIC has posted that the websites of Ryanair, a popular low-cost airline which recently began offering flights to Morocco, has been blocked.
Une partie de la censure de Maroc Telecom se fait pour des raisons économiques pour défendre ses propres produits (comme la téléphonie longue distance en bloquant des services de VoIP) ou pour défendre certains intérêts économiques du gouvernement ou d'entreprises publiques. C'est le cas pour la compagnie aérienne Royal Air Maroc que Maroc Telecom essaie de protéger au Maroc en bloquant l'accès aux sites de la compagnie aérienne low cost Ryanair.
A part of Maroc Telecom's censorship is made for economic reasons to defend its own products (like long distance telephone service by blocking services of VoIP) or to defend certain economic interests of the government or public companies. It is the case for the airline company Royal Air Maroc which Maroc Telecom tries to protect in Morocco by blocking the access to the sites of the low cost airline company Ryanair.
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Maroc Telecom is a branch of a multinational company.
Censorship is done or ordered by governments and not
by private sector.
How come in Morocco,Maroc Telecom keeps censoring wesites like youtube,etc..and now Ryanair.?
I wonder if Maroc Telecom is a state inside the state of Morocco doing the job the Moroccan government should do by itself.
Lately, when Youtube was blocked in Morocco, nobody in this country could answer openly who was behind this closure of youtube.
And I still wonder who’s in charge in Morocco and who’s giving a company the authority to act as a censor.
The website of Ryanair is experiencing problems in Europe. I do not believe it was censored in Maroc. In Malta it is also not working
I wouldn’t be so hasty to blame Maroc Telecom, I’m in Sweden and Ryanair’s has been down here all day today (2/6), and it’s down in the UK as well. It seems they’re having some trouble with their servers.
Of course, if Maroc Telecom are doing this, they should bear in mind that in every destination they’ve added Ryanair, and the other LCC’s, tend to expand the total market for air-travel from that location rather than cannibalise the other carriers, and there are plenty of travellers that will only travel to places serviced my the LCC’s so lots of tourists who wouldn’t come before will come now. It’s win-win for Morocco.
Well, now that MT has blocked youtube for a couple of days, it became blamable for any technical difficulties that may encounter any website in the world, that’s good for them, I never liked Maroc telecom anyway
MT didn’t blocked the site web of Rayan Air , as said previously , Rayan Air has troubles in the internal system.
If it’s true that MT blocked their website , why other competitors are still working ? why didn’t she block more that one ?
Ryanair website blocked aswell in scotland since 3 days at least…Any news???
I’m in Birmingham, England. been blocked here for three days also!! Any news!!
I tested access to the websites of Ryanair, with the help of a friend, at the same time in Morocco and in France. In France, all was ok but in Morocco, it was unreachable. It does not have the symtoms of a hosting problem. We’ll continue checking this.
Here in Malta the ryanair website has been inaccessible for the last three days. I had to fall at the mercy of Air Malta prices in making an urgent reservation.
Ryanair would better the fast to solve the problem as otherwise her sales and reputation will go down from low to none!
Hi. I’ve tried for three days now to reach ryanair.com from Stockholm in Sweden without any success. They must lose a lot of money over this issue.
I’ve been unable to access Ryanair.com in Spain for 3 days but a friend has managed twice to reach the home page very early in the morning.
This will add extra cost to check and go paassengers who have to pay about 20 euros for boarding cards if they can’t print them from the ryanair website.
It would not make any sense for the Moroccan government to allow Maroc Telecom to block any Ryan Air websites,as Morocco has just signed an agreement with Ryan Air to expand Ryan Air’s operations into Morocco by setting up a hub at Marrakech,so there is little logic in this rumour.
The more tourists that Ryan brings to Morocco the better it is for the Moroccan economy and their Tourist industry. Also don’t forget that Royal Air Maroc has its own very successful low cost carrier called “Atlas Blue”.
The Moroccan government’s agreement and acceptance to an “open skies” policy is a fundamental factor in the success of Morocco’s booming Tourist industry.
Five years ago Morocco had 2 million tourists a year, today it has 8 million, and it is their intention to have 10 million by 2010.
The last thing that they would wish is hinder Ryan or any other airline in bringing in valuable tourists ready to spend money in their Tourist sector!
Let’s have a reality check on this……..!!!????
I’ve been trying to access it for several days now (from South Africa), and today still no luck.
Can’t be good for business!
in belgium it doesn’t work since this morning.
Problems..
Blocked in London since Monday morning first thing at least
My ISP (In Ireland) tells me that they have heard on the grapevine that Ryanair are migrating servers at present, and it appears that something has gone very badly wrong with the process, and DNS records are being changed regularly, and DNS resolutions are failing as a result, so attempts to contact their site are failing.
There’s no indication how long this will continue, but it’s bad at the moment.
It is still impossible to open directly Ryanair’s website in Morocco.
Access to Ryanair’s websites has been restored late yesterday (june 5th) by Maroc Telecom.
Configure your computer to use OpenDNS’ DNS servers and then you’ll have access to Ryanair’s website. Instructions are at http://www.opendns.com/start .
OpenDNS is blocked by Maroc Telecom. There are different ways to bypass censorship, but that is not the point.
I’ve noticed that i can’t access paypal here in morocco and also steampowered.com
If I may add, governments have little or no influence over multinationals. The theory that the government influences any ISP anywhere in the world to censor websites is absolutely deranged. The more than accurate hypothesis is that for some equation to work out ‘ok’, the website must be inaccessible to x people during y seconds. It is the same with any such problem. Think call centers, money transfer delays, etc. It is basically similar to what magicians do: diverting attention. Everything in this world is basically an attention black hole, draining people’s atetntion, patience, and mental resources in order to make sure that a very simple action is impossible, unthinkable, and therefore inexistant. You have to actually look at things indirectly to understand what I’m saying. The reasons change, because the reasons are, just like beliefs, there for a very specific purpose. Logic itself is not a static concept as such. There are always variables introduced, suppressed, or refuted, and thus to think that an ISP blocks a website is wrong. Nobody blocks a website, not even the people who do it. It is an ‘organisational’ pattern that serves a certain group of people ’somewhere’, and the point is that everything that is happening in this world today is keeping those people away from harm’s way, in a very, very intelligent manner. Euh, I suppose I have derailed from the main subject far enough so I leave things here. And hope no offence is taken. At least, I hope no offence is taken by people who don’t diserve it.
So long,
Cheers,
A.K.A. 1
Why Ryanair does not explain all these problems to their clients…? Myself as an investor i was trying to get to Ryair website no way i phoned Uk to try they confirmed the same thing…NO COMMENT. LOT of things are going on between big companies have a look at this article…very interesting..http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/jun/26/theairlineindustry.travel
I am amazed so few people knew the site was going to experience a scheduled down time period of three days while it was being updated. This was well publicised in advance, and the good news is they finished updating to comply with OFT wishes much earlier than expected. The bad news is the site is swamped because of the “free seats” offer, and is not working correctly 24 hours later !
RaF