Welcome to the internet future in the Middle East and North Africa:
In addition to blocking blogs and arresting bloggers, a new form of censorship has started to emerge in the Middle East and North Africa: blog-hosting services removing blogs from their servers.
Arab bloggers complain that the major blog-hosting services, Maktoob Blog and Jeeran Blog, have removed popular blogs without providing any explanations or prior notice.
For example, bloggers reported that Jeeran Blog has removed a blog run by a Lebanese blogger because it contains sensitive political content. One of the bloggers who reported (Arabic) the blog removal asked Jeeran Blog to let the public know if the blog-hosting service is under pressure from the Arab political regimes.