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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."

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

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

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    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.

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  2. Meh.. by Svenne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's your sense of style?

    "Boston Bans Boing Boing Because of a Blog"

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    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.

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  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.

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  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

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  7. 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.

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