From Baron at Gates of Vienna:
This email just came in from a reader:
Howdy,I’m a long-time reader, without ever actually commenting on anything. Yesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior installed blocking software on their entire network. Gates of Vienna is now blocked, as are all sites with a .blogspot URL. (Pastorius note: except for atrios.blogspot.com) Also blocked are other conservative blogs, such as Wizbang.
More than half the sites I check on a daily basis are now completely blocked.
As of today, Little Green Footballs is not blocked, but that’s about the only one I’ve seen that isn’t. There’s not much that can be done, but I just thought I’d let you know. I’ll check later today when I get in to see if the liberal blogs are blocked.
As of now, Little Green Footballs is also being blocked, but DailyKos is not. I don’t have a contact for Charles. Can we try to get the word out? Blocking conservative blogs and not liberal ones is BS.
Take care, and thanks for the good stuff you folks post.
He sent a follow-up a couple of minutes later:- - - - - - - - - -
Here’s a quick runthrough of what I’ve found so far at work. You’ll see that its pretty one-sided.
Blocked Blogs:
Captain’s Quarters
Cox and Forkum
Gates of Vienna
Little Green Footballs
Michael J. Totten
Michelle Malkin
Power Line
Protein Wisdom
Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Roger L. Simon
The Adventures of Chester
The American Thinker
The Belmont Club
The Doctor is In
Wizbang
Blogs not blocked
DailyKos
Democrat Underground
America blog
Atrios .blogspot.com
JuanCole.com
The Huffington Post
Talkingpointsmemo.com
In fact, every blog linked to off of DailyKos seems to work.
Please, please get the word out about this. It not only royally sucks that I can’t read stuff during downtimes at work, but they are being so blatantly biased as to what is being blocked.
Thanks.
13 comments:
.blogspot.com is on the "not blocked list", so we should be accessible.
But Dept of the Interior blocks conservative blogs? This is just bizarre.
I'm so hurt. They didn't block my blog.
Boo Hoo.
Watcher,
I'm sorry. I screwed up. They blocked all .blogspot.com blogs except Atrios.blogspot.com.
I have to change that.
Oh... n/p.
Hey, maybe we should e-mail FoxNews, etc. about this DOI's little initiative?
MOVABLE TYPE, PEOPLE....YOU CAN NAME YOUR BLOGSITE ANYTHING,
YOU CAN HOST IT IN YOUR HOME. Or on a fiendly network...
Nobody can block it unless they want to pick us off one by one ...
What is movable type, Epa?
Meanwhile this is solved, you can use a Web-based RSS reader. I use Google Reader and I read my subscriptions very quickly (don't have to open each separate website).
HERE
Free. Works with MySql ...also free.
Put it together with this and you have a portable domain pointing right back to yoru own system (if you have XP Sp1+ or Win 2000, 2003 server)
IF you have 10k hits a day this won't work, but then you have a good problem, buy a real server.
I'm about to reveal the true extent of my cyberignorance but in case there are any more squibs like me out there, what does it mean that the DOI has "blocked" these sites? Who is denied access to them and how?
It means the Dept. of the Interior has denied their own employees access to these sites.
Thanks, Pastorius.
LGF has the DOI's policy sheet on blocking up. It refers to sex, gambling and internet auction sites. Anybody know which of those we fit into? (It would sure save time if I could list here instead of eBay...)
Well, isn't it obvious? Look around you. Aren't we all sexy as hell?
:)
Pastorius, could you email me your email address? I got one idea I'd like to bring up, but don't want to discuss it in public. My email is xodus4000@yahoo.com
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