Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Thursday, June 22, 2006

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.

2 Comments:

At 3:13 PM, Blogger coby said...

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".

 
At 2:47 AM, Blogger James-Speaks said...

"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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