Big Brother Really IS Watching
Apr 25th, 2006 at 8:55 am by Susie
Well, looky here. From Daily Kos:
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.
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.
Interesting. I know I have a couple of readers from Air Force bases - wonder if they can see this?
Could somebody remind me what the Google-Yahoo problem is in China?
Same for the other uniformed services. In comments to the “troops”, the aforementioned websites were described as traitorous and disloyal.