George Bush is giving us the finger
LOL! This is dated Wednesday 27th, but I've just tried to get GeorgeWBush.com and I was told "You are not authorized to view this page".
Bush website conspiracy theories darken skies
"The official Bush re-election website -- which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week -- is still visible to Canadians.
"We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
"We called the Republican National Committee for comment but they couldn't get back to us because campaign volunteers are not allowed to phone outside the US.
"So, we can't see Bush's website because of reckless politicking by pinko broadsheet agitators, Republicans can't call outside the US lest they be corrupted by pinko broadsheet agitators, but Canadians are exempt because -- well, readers will have to answer that for themselves but a massive black swarm of black helicopters is already hovering menacingly on the horizon.
"Meanwhile, the official website of the Kerry/Edwards campaign (JohnKerry.com) is still accessible to all and sundry -- as is the satire site GeorgeWBush.org. How many would-be visitors to GeorgeWBush.com -- including US service men and citizens living abroad and now denied their God-given right to freely surf the Land of the Free -- will wind up at the satire site, we wonder? We weep for democracy."
From The Register [Thanks for this one, Donal]
LOL! This is dated Wednesday 27th, but I've just tried to get GeorgeWBush.com and I was told "You are not authorized to view this page".
Bush website conspiracy theories darken skies
"The official Bush re-election website -- which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week -- is still visible to Canadians.
"We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
"We called the Republican National Committee for comment but they couldn't get back to us because campaign volunteers are not allowed to phone outside the US.
"So, we can't see Bush's website because of reckless politicking by pinko broadsheet agitators, Republicans can't call outside the US lest they be corrupted by pinko broadsheet agitators, but Canadians are exempt because -- well, readers will have to answer that for themselves but a massive black swarm of black helicopters is already hovering menacingly on the horizon.
"Meanwhile, the official website of the Kerry/Edwards campaign (JohnKerry.com) is still accessible to all and sundry -- as is the satire site GeorgeWBush.org. How many would-be visitors to GeorgeWBush.com -- including US service men and citizens living abroad and now denied their God-given right to freely surf the Land of the Free -- will wind up at the satire site, we wonder? We weep for democracy."
From The Register [Thanks for this one, Donal]
Nora posted item above at 12:03 AM | Permalink
2 Comments:
Has the bush campaign never heard of proxy servers? I got that site up in teh UK in about 90 seconds.
George
Goodonya, George. :)
The Register tells us this in their previous article:
"Although overseas visitors to www.georgewbush.com are blocked, https://georgewbush.com or http://65.172.163.222 still work.
http://65.172.163.222 resolves as GeorgeWBush.com, which illustrates how cack-handed the blocking is."
But I suppose many folks may not know about these kinds of alternatives.
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