US Marines Have Blocked Access to Wonkette & Other Anti-BushSites In Iraq!

[kpete]

We’re Bringing the War Back Home
Folks, our fighting boys need your help. Here’s the email we received today from one of them:

Just to let you know, the US Marines have blocked access to “Wonkette” along with numerous other sites such as personal email (i.e. Yahoo, AT&T, Hotmail, etc), blogs that don’t agree with the government point of view, personal websites, and some news organizatons. This has taken effect as of the beginning of February. I have no problem with them blocking porn sites (after all it is a government network), but cutting off access to our email and possibly-not-toeing-the-government-line websites is a bit much.

Initially all web blocking was done locally at the hub sites in Iraq. If you wanted a site “unblocked” you just had to email the local administrator with a reason (like, “I’d like to read my email, please.”), and if it wasn’t porn or offensive, they’d allow it. Now, all blocking is done by desk-weenies at the USMC Network Operations Center in Quantico, VA, who really don’t care if we get our email (or gossip) out here, as they get to go to happy hour after working 9 to 5 and go home to a nice clean, warm home with a real bed! (Sorry, I’m a little peeved.)

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/iraq/were-bringing-the-war-back-home-157660.php

[Coexist]

1. wow.

[Pryderi]

2. deleted.

[Union Thug]

3. and the US criticizes China..hahahaha... but seriously..

To me, this indicates a desperation on the part of the administration. They fear information, they fear the truth...

Remember what Tim Leary once said, he who controls what your eyes see controls your mind. Is it any wonder 90% of troops think Saddam was complicit in the 9/11 attacks?

Unreal.

[stop the bleeding]

4. just sent K.O. @ countdown an email on this

WTF

[kpete]

7. Thanks

I was pretty upset when I read this. 10s of thousands of people protesting in India. When do we get to do that here? Whats it going to take?

[Divernan]

5. Now who's jealous of who's freedoms? Feels like we're an occupied country

What's next? Will Bush require one have a license to own/operate a computer?

Remember all those World War II movies where the underground and just plain citizens in Nazi occupied countries used to operate short wave radios, and the Nazis would drive trucks around pinpointing/triangulating the source of the broadcasts? Or that scene in South Pacific where Emile de Becque was strafed by Japanese airplanes while broadcasting news of Japanese ship movements?

[Just Me]

6. U.S. gubermint censorship.

:wow:

[genie_weenie]

8. Well, the military also enforces a communications ban

when something is about to go down. I won't name the operation.

[progressivebydesign]

10. Does it rhyme with ICAN??? n/t

[WilliamPitt]

9. This makes clear

that bizarre tidbit in the new Zogby poll that had something like 80% of the troops polled thinking we went to war over there because Saddam was involved with 9/11.

They're about a year behind the curve, thanks to information starvation.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. But there's open access to Instapundit?

:grr:

[hunter]

12. God Bless Cisco Systems!

The desk-weenies at the USMC Network Operations Center salute you for protecting brave American servicemen from the internet!