TagsTagsAccording to an LGF reader in Minnesota, a company called PureSight that screens web content for “compliance with Internet usage policies” has been blocking access to Little Green Footballs and Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch. Our reader discovered this in a web cafe in Crosslake, when he tried to access one ...
Jeff Goldstein is back and he’s proud, after a pair of DoS attacks took his site offline earlier: protein wisdom. UPDATE at 7/8/06 7:32:58 am: Nope, he’s still down. And it may have something to do with this: BLACKFIVE: A New Low.
I admit I’m conflicted on the “net neutrality” debate and having a hard time deciding which side to back. I’m in favor of internet innovation and capitalism, but feel slightly queasy about trusting cable/telco companies not to abuse the power of a “tiered services” internet. Here are two pretty good summations ...
Stephen Taylor has an almost unbelievable story of censorship and abuse of power in Canada, where Joe Volpe, candidate for leadership of the Liberal party (and eventual candidate for Prime Minister), apparently called his cronies at the Canadian Registrar Authority and had them delete the domain name of a parody ...
The New York Sun may be the only mainstream newspaper in America that has figured out the real meaning of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush: Iran Declares War. President Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence ...
If this op/ed in the Baltimore Sun states the case accurately, Internet service providers are pushing legislation through Congress that may have a direct effect on which web sites you are allowed to access. The big ISPs are proposing to divide the internet into high- and low-rent districts: Proposed rule ...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush is here, in PDF form. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Robert Spencer points out that, contrary to media’s nearly universal spin, the letter is neither the ravings of a lunatic nor a genuine overture toward negotiations. This is a da’wa, a call to accept Islam, and ...
Ever have one of those Mondays when it feels like you’ve woken up in an alternate universe? Iran’s Leader Writes to President Bush. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s leader has written to President Bush proposing “new solutions” to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head ...
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently has a web site: President News. (Hat tip: Wisenheimer.) (Whois lookups on all the usual suspects did not reveal the owner of this domain.) UPDATE at 4/30/06 6:37:00 pm: Using Mac OS X Terminal, the ‘dig’ command reveals that the ‘A’ record for this domain is indeed located ...
Another DoS attack on Hosting Matters: Round Two - Hosting Matters Emergency Support Forum. We are seeing another round of attacks after changing the IPs on the target server. This is an indication that the target from earlier either was not the primary target or was a byproduct of the original ...
This is very cool; one of my favorite radio hosts, Tammy Bruce, now has free web streaming.