Slashdot Mirror
Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America
acey72 writes "The BBC News are
reporting that George W Bush's re-election website (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA. Netcraft spotted the change on Monday, and have a report on the matter. Oh well, at least John Kerry's site still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).
Nice. Let's censor information for the Greater Good. I'm not a Bush fan but this is not a good thing in my opinion.
What else do you expect from fascists? The current administration are not Republicans, they are neocons! They are the new fascist party of the United States and are working toward global domination. www.newamericancentury.org to find out more.
That is because GW hates non-americans! He wants to kill them all, and he surely doesn't want them going to his website with his name on it, looking at picutres of him waving and smiling! That's only for Americans! Close the borders! Lock down the internets! Kill Canada! -GO VOTE!
It's alright, all he needs is his good friend Diebold.
But this? It makes me realize that no matter what the other guy might be, he is neither a demagogue (or not as much so), nor stupid (or at least not as much so), and so my new choice is to find me an absentee ballot for my first overseas ballot (first voting ever actually) and to pick which of the other guys it will be.
I was entranced by the coldly mathematical yet interesting libertarian candidate (he strikes me as wonderfully fresh and honest, though I am starting to think he may be at least partially insane). Most interesting there was I only know about him from slashdot and a one hour stream (I think it was maybe a torrent) from his interview on I think CNN.
I guess I have a responsibility to look for sites of other candidates (preferably torrents of interviews so I can get a good idea of what they are like) and try to get some diverging opinions from people so I can make up my mind.
Duh.
Don't you know that the UK, China, France, Cuba, Afghanistan, and every other country in the world should be able to vote for in the POTUS election?
please, use your brains ... vote kerry ... have you seen the world latelly?
You wouldn't happen to be French and/or Al Qaeda would you?
Vote Kerry. If you have any faith in world leaders like Arafat, Castro, and Zarqawi, then you are compelled to vote Kerry.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I wonder how many American citizens would be better of being "liberated" from Bush? Can we do a survey and get some stats? Maybe we should just intervene and do some "Regime change", especially if Bush wins, as it is then clearly a perverted, rigged election. Maybe a Lee Harvey Oswald will save us. Surur
Information is the location of things. Computation is moving things around.
Yeah, Too many hackers from outside the U.S. were trying to take that propaganda machine -www.georgewbush.com - down.
It is imperatif that we not let foreigners see the imperial master plan.
For those who don't know or remember, in 1938 Orson Welles did a radio broadcast re-creating the novel "War of the Worlds" but as director he decided to perform it as if it were a news broadcast. People all over the nation freaked out thinking it was real. They loaded their guns and wrapped wet towels over their heads to protect them from alien poison gas. They stocked up on food. They loaded up in their cars and headed out. They filled churches and began praying. Miscarriages and early births were reported in hospitals. People freaked out. Deaths were reported but none were confirmed.
At the beginning of the broadcast, it was announced that it was just a story and that it wasn't real. Most people missed the first announcement. The disclaimer was then repeated 40 minutes into the show but even though everyone heard it, it went ignored and people's minds blocked out the fact that it was all fake. They were so absorbed in fear, so worried about the alien heat ray, and so frightened at the idea that at any moment they could die that their minds refused to acknowledge the fact that it wasn't real. Fear destroys objectivity and it is impossible to think clearly when you are afraid.
I feel like the last 3 years have been the sequel. We've been put in such a state of fear that we can't hear the truth. We were told that Iraq could strike us with nerve gas or biological weapons. We were told that their rockets could reach us within 45 minutes of launch. We were told that Saddam was responsible for 9/11. We were told that they had "nukular" weapons. The aliens with their heat ray had landed.
40 minutes into the program we were told by the same people that none of that was true. How many of you heard the announcement? Right after the announcement, the story was resumed and everyone took their parts to continue scaring us with their beautifully written story.
I still see people with wet towels wrapped around their heads. I still see people constantly praying to God to save us from the aliens and their heat ray. I still see people living life every day like it was all real. I even see people become angry and violent when others try to tell them that none of it was real. I understand why they behave this way though. We've been kept in a perpetual state of fear and this is a critical piece to the performance. If we're not afraid, we won't vote for the director of this great show.
Yes, we did get attacked by terrorists. Yes the twin towers fell. No, Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with it. Iraq is War of the Worlds all over again with Bush playing the part of Orson Welles. Now we're about to have elections. At the polls I expect to see people with their guns shifty-eyed looking for aliens. I expect to see people with wet towels on their heads waiting for the alien poison gas to hit. I expect to see people vote that still haven't realized that Iraq was just a fabricated tale told to us so realistically that many of us still believe that it was real.
Orson Welles for president? I think not.
"Seriously... "Blessed are the Peacemakers" ring any bells?"
No, seriously. You sound like a complete idiot. Name me a "peace maker" in his place. Go on. Kerry? Oooh, had that Vietnam thing happening. Clinton? attacked Iraq first on the very same premise of WMDs. The UN? Sanctioned the first invasion of Iraq and through their decade of inaction, cost 300,000 their lives.
Terrorism? Proven. Human rights violations? Proven. Banned weapons programs? Proven. The willingness to use WMDs on his own poulace? Proven. WMDs? Well, still working on that, but question: If 300 tones of high explosive can go missing right out from under the UN's nose, why not WMDs? 300 tones isn't exactly something you can load up onto your 4x4 and boogie out, you know? We're talk a concerted effort using tractor trailers and semies. Where's they go?
Yes, Bush, root of all evil.
You need a FREE iPod Nano
Personally I think a google bomb is in order, who's up for it? flip flopper
sometimes, i wonder if i'm the only conservative on teh intarweb. ah well, back to mah hogs and warmongerin'....
When they arrive on an airplane to visit, he takes them aside and fingerprints them like criminals. In his debate, he suggested that their low-priced prescription medications would 'kill ya.' Now, he is blocking them from reading his website. He needs to get out more. There's an entire world beyond those Texas borders, Mr. President, that we need to get along with. We all share the same little planet, after all.
Do you really think anyone in the US gives a flying fuck what a french person says? Shouldn't you be out collecting more bribes from terrorists instead of posting here?
So get the fuck out and move to France, no one here will miss you.
Unfortunately I don't belive you will move out. You liberal fucks always talk big and never follow through, just like your beloved commie lover Kerry.
Have they changed it now? Or am I supposed to be insulted that it works from Canada?
piss off. we don't you. running imperialist lackey! although to be serious for a moment, we really don't. Right now Canadians are claiming to anti-Bush. That's true, but it's only because he's the American flavour of the day. this country is anti-American. We don't want you.
And never claimed he did. That was a democrat who made that absurd claim, among a long list of absurd democrat claims.
it should just be called Linux
no GNU
RMS sucks my cock
Most non-Americans favour Kerry over Bush, or at least the ones who know who Kerry even is - I swear half of us would be anti-Bush even if his opponents were Hitler and Stalin, out of sheer ignorance.
However, we don't have a say in the US election for good reason - we aren't the US. We aren't concerned with terrorism, because terrorism is mostly affecting the US. All most of us think about it that there's a war going on, very possibly with soldiers from our own country, and it ain't our quarrel. Why should we help take out people who want to bomb America? Why can't America do it themselves?
Of course, that's exactly the attitude most of us seem to associate with Americans. And that is exactly the reason patriotism blows.
"Have I been living in the same universe as these guys??? All three pillars involve "peace"? What happened to preemptive war, the axis of evil, not caring what the rest of world think, etc. etc."
Ummm... there was _never_ peace in the axis of evil. The goal is to make it more peaceful.
Can you think of a time when NK, Iran, or Iraq were peaceful?
On the other hand, Germany is peaceful do to our and others' interventions in WWII. Japan is likewise peaceful.
Engineering and the Ultimate
...of alienation extends to his website.