-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Websites blocked by political stripes for Marines in Iraq? Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:13:28 -0500 From: Barry Ritholtz <ritholtz@optonline.net> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Hey Dave, I know you prefer to keep things tech focused, rather than political. But then how do we classify this bit of selective internet filtering: Websites blocked by political stripes for Marines in Iraq? Snip from an email sent by an anonymous US Marine to Wonkette: Unfortunately anonomizers don't work out here (never have). Anyway, I had a few minutes today and thought I'd look and see what else was banned on the Marine web here. I think the results speak for themselves: * Wonkette b b Forbidden, this page (http://www.wonkette.com/) is categorized as: Forum/Bulletin Boards, Politics/Opinion.b * Bill ObReilly (www.billoreilly.com) b OK * Air America (www.airamericaradio.com) b b Forbidden, this page (http://www.airamericaradio.com/) is categorized as: Internet Radio/ TV, Politics/Opinion.b * Rush Limbaugh (www.rushlimbaugh.com) b OK * ABC News b The Noteb b OK * Website of the Al Franken Show (www.alfrankenshow.com) b b Forbidden, this page (http://www.airamericaradio.com/) is categorized as: Internet Radio/TV, Politics/Opinion.b * G. Gordon Liddy Show (www.liddyshow.us) b OK * Don & Mike Show (www.donandmikewebsite.com) b b Forbidden, this page (http://www.donandmikewebsite.com/) is categorized as: Profanity, Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies.b If it wasn't so sad, it would be laughable. Litigation to follow . . . Wonkette via boingboing http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/06/websites_blocked_by_.html http://wonkette.com/politics/wonkette/our-boys-need-gossip-158687.php Incidentally, Josh Marshall has been discussing what could be an illegal use of the Military for purely political events here: http:// www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2006_03_05.php#007808 How can we avoid discussing politics when it seems to intrude everywhere? Barry L. Ritholtz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Big Picture: Macro perspectives on the Capital Markets, Economy, and Geopolitics (with a dash of music and film thrown in!) http://bigpicture.typepad.com/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]