BREAKING: Air Force Censors Liberal Websites, But Leaves Conservative Ones Alone
by AmberJane
Mon Apr 24, 2006 at 09:31:33 PM PDT
Earlier today, a friend of mine who flies for the Air Force sent me an email reporting that sometime in the middle of the day today, the Air Force's IT people put a block on DailyKos. He was on a coffee break and wanted to show a colleague a diary about energy policy, so he told me (probably one of Jerome à Paris'). Although it was possible to do that this morning, by around two o'clock (or however they say that in the Air Force) DailyKos was blocked.
So was Atrios.So was TalkingPointsMemo, for crying out loud - and they're all policy and minimal invective over there!On the other hand, Free Republic and Little Green Footballs came through just fine, thank you very much.
AmberJane's diary :: ::
Attempts to load any of the "forbidden" sites causes a very scary screen to pop up, warning the user that a regulation or policy or some such has been violated and the address of the computer has been logged.
I can certainly understand a policy that permits airmen to use their computers at work for work reasons only, but that hardly explains why some of the more outrageous examples of high wingnuttery are given a pass.
Tags: Censorship, Military, Recommended, police state
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Mon Apr 24, 2006 at 09:31:33 PM PDT
Earlier today, a friend of mine who flies for the Air Force sent me an email reporting that sometime in the middle of the day today, the Air Force's IT people put a block on DailyKos. He was on a coffee break and wanted to show a colleague a diary about energy policy, so he told me (probably one of Jerome à Paris'). Although it was possible to do that this morning, by around two o'clock (or however they say that in the Air Force) DailyKos was blocked.
So was Atrios.So was TalkingPointsMemo, for crying out loud - and they're all policy and minimal invective over there!On the other hand, Free Republic and Little Green Footballs came through just fine, thank you very much.
AmberJane's diary :: ::
Attempts to load any of the "forbidden" sites causes a very scary screen to pop up, warning the user that a regulation or policy or some such has been violated and the address of the computer has been logged.
I can certainly understand a policy that permits airmen to use their computers at work for work reasons only, but that hardly explains why some of the more outrageous examples of high wingnuttery are given a pass.
Tags: Censorship, Military, Recommended, police state
LinkHere
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