are you blocked too?

Now, I understand the raaz behind the outages. - First it was geocities, I cursed it for a week and ported my webpage onto freewebs. - Now, its blogger.com, naa - I am not reporting my blog - no way!! And all this to suppress anti-social activities courtesy Mumbai blasts... Hmmm But, geocities was down around 3 weeks back, and what was the reason for that? - Does this classify as pre-emption? * Neha Vishwanath tracks this issue here * Another reason for those who arent using RSS feeds to start using them Update : Thanks to the hullabaloo generated by a few influential bloggers, Blogger.com is directly accessible again. Don't any influential people use Geocities(sic)?