Friday, August 14, 2009
"Capitol Hill Censoring Conservative Web Sites"
So, what do you think about this?
The "state run" media seems for the most part "voluntary"; however, censorship of opposing views is pretty heavy-handed...
The "state run" media seems for the most part "voluntary"; however, censorship of opposing views is pretty heavy-handed...
This is posted by someone id'd Guardian Council at the DCwriteup.com:
"Capitol Hill offices have censored at least two conservative-leaning Web sites without providing a public justification, The D.C. Writeup has found.
The Politicizer, a site that bills itself as 'A Fresh Perspective On Politics and Society From the Internet Generation,' has been inaccessible every day for the last two weeks on Capitol Hill. For the entirety of that period, users from a variety of other locations – including other D.C. government buildings and nearby offices – had no difficulty loading the site.
While the Politicizer does not claim to be partisan, the site’s content is mostly ideologically conservative, including recent articles such as “Obama’s Small Business Problem” and “Oppose Obamacare.”
The D.C. Writeup has also been inaccessible from the Hill since July 10. Like the Politicizer, the site is not explicitly right-of-center, but features a significant amount of content critical of the Obama administration.
Prior to July 10, the site loaded properly, suggesting that either an automated system or a government official decided to prevent it from functioning."
