Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi

Posted by kdawson on from the take-that dept.

DrFlounder writes "The city of Boston has apparently blocked access to Boing Boing on the municipal Wi-Fi. This is possibly due to the popular blog's known Mooninite sympathies." Update: 4/22 13:11 GMT by KD : Seth Finkelstein did some research and posted an explanation of the blockage to his blog. "'Arbitrary and capricious' seems the relevant characterization."

11 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Query by maxume · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there anywhere left in the world where the government isn't equal parts hilarious and incompetent?

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
    1. Re:Query by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 3, Funny

      Antartica's still an option. However, quite a few of the local inhabitants have sort of stopped progress-wise. One could say they have frozen to a halt.

      --
      "I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
  2. Meh.. by Svenne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's your sense of style?

    "Boston Bans Boing Boing Because of a Blog"

    --

    Slagborr
  3. Yes by catbutt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sealand

    1. Re:Yes by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

      They think they are a country; that fills in each half nicely.

      --
      Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  4. All over again... by Shky · · Score: 4, Funny

    The mayor was quoted as saying that a "'Boing Boing' is clearly some type of explosive device."




    I say we commence remoonification.

    --
    CC Licensed Serialized Story and Podcast: Ingenioustries
  5. Re:The ISPs were right all along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is nothing wrong with this ... except, perhaps, if you hate freedom.

    Do not question the mayor. LED cartoons are terrorist threats and non-sycophantic websites are subversion.

  6. Domain name change by iminplaya · · Score: 4, Funny

    www.boston.cn

    --
    What?
  7. Re:The ISPs were right all along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What the hell does SVN have to do with anything?

  8. Boston T1 Party by spezz · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should all head down to the harbor and dump crates of routers into the bay. It worked before.

    --
    come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
  9. Re:The ISPs were right all along by yesteraeon · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is nothing wrong with this ... except, perhaps, if you hate freedom. I think you might have misspelled love, 'cause I hate freedom and I think this is best thing since Guantanamo Bay!