[lbo-talk] fighting for freedom of expression

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 6 09:27:41 PST 2004


[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review]

US MILITARY BLOCKED FROM READING ELECTRONIC IRAQ http://electroniciraq.net/news/1302.shtml

JO WILDING, ELECTRONIC IRAQ - Web administrators in one of the military bases in Baghdad have blocked access to the Electronic Iraq website. They do this for sites deemed "unnecessary," including those of "advocacy groups," which they've decided that e-Iraq is. Any soldiers reading may be interested to know that, unless they've also blocked Google, you can still get access to blocked sites by clicking on the cached version of the site, essentially a giant mirror of the Internet. This was a trick we learnt just before the war, shortly before the Iraqi government discovered it too and firewalled Google as well.



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