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October 11, 2006

Are you reading a banned blog?

Gates of Vienna received an email from a reader today to the effect that the Department of the Interior had blocked Gates from their servers. After further investigation, it seems quite a few blogs were blocked, this one among them. Here's the list of blocked blogs:

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
Commentary

What a triumph! I have a mere iota of the traffic of the rest of those blogs! To be mentioned in the same breath with them should boost these Adventures to the heights of the blogerati!! My scheme of hacking the Interior Dept has worked!! Now, if only the State Department's firewalls weren't so darn difficult to break . . .

Seriously though, rumor has it that Bill Roggio's blog is banned in Pakistan. Now that's good PR.

Posted by Chester at October 11, 2006 11:18 PM

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After the Iraq invasion, there was a similar situation with DoD access. It turned out that they had also installed new filtering software, with default settings. The official answer (and it seemed to work) was that the office in charge would look at all requests to unblock and if the site did not fit the criteria for blocking, they would remove the block. Many conservative sites were originally blocked and quickly got unblocked.

Posted by: Dave in W-S at October 12, 2006 10:04 AM

Ah ha, the Liberals working in government departments are blocking free speech and the truth just like their comrads in the CIA.

Posted by: JimboNC at October 12, 2006 1:02 PM

Let me get this straight:
The blocked Dr Bob...
but not the Ace of Spades?

Sounds like civil service (at least GS-10) minds at work (if you want to call that work).

Posted by: ed intexas at October 12, 2006 3:52 PM