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Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Press Access to Internet being Censored
Journalists at the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere are suffering a loss of internet access as a result of censorship programs that routinely filter out blogging sites such as Boing, Boing.
Readers should please let me know if Informed Comment is being routinely blocked by such software.
posted by Juan Cole @ 6/22/2006 08:48:00 AM
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3 Comments:
Good grief. But the silver lining is they are obviously very afraid.
Professor Cole, I have been watching to see if you would have an opinion, from your perspective of epertise on Muslim culture, of the notion that the recent suicides at Guantanamo were a "PR move". Moral repgunance of this sentiment aside, how likely is it that a Muslim would take their own life as an act of "asymetrical warfare".
I am a civilian contractor working in Iraq and have been accessing your site with no problems at multiple US military bases. I thank you so much for your work as I have found your site over time to be the most accurate and informative as to what is ACTUALLY happening (and not the incredibly prevalent spin). When I first got here in '04, I was surprised because the military newspaper they offer here 'Stars and Stripes' was not extremely biased. Yet soon after the Presidential election I noticed it getting wierder and wierder. I wish I had kept the clippings, but there have been some mind-boggling doozies (such as when they had daily headlines that the new Constitution had been agreed upon, when in reality it was still being argued about for months after that). Some of the stuff is nothing more than propaganda and very depressing as it is transparent lies.
"Journalists at the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere are suffering a loss of internet access as a result of censorship programs that routinely filter out blogging sites such as Boing, Boing."
One of the impacts is that some of the censored sites are those that criticize net-nanny software.
Apparently, other blocked sites include playboy.com, clear evidence of the terror caused by the war on bush.
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