[liberationtech] What goes around comes around: News website filtering now in the U.S.

[Walid Al-Saqaf]

Hi all,

I would have never guess that the day would come when website filtering of
news websites would take place in the U.S., the land of the free and the
brave.

Alas, Air Force personnel from now on would see "Access Denied: Internet
usage is logged and monitored,” when they attempt to open The Guardian, Der
Spiegel,El País Le Monde, and several other news websites that had the
WikiLeaks Cablegate data.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/us/15wiki.html

Is this a turning point for the U.S.? Will this be common practice by other
American ISPs?

Read more here:

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>
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