No, it's a very horrible example. Advancing the opinion that a most-likely-Al-Qaida-supported Arabic/Muslim news site could possibly be unbiased towards the U.S. occupation in Iraq is silly at best and worthy of personal attack flame at worst..
But this is horribly off track and should stop now. On 9/20/07, Petri Laihonen <pietu at weblizards.net> wrote: > > Yes. I know it is sensitive topic around here.....like many other > things.... that's why I picked it up as a very good example. :-) > > Petri > > > Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > Al Jazeera: The unbiased news of the Middle East. > > > :( > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Petri Laihonen < pietu at weblizards.net> > Date: Sep 20, 2007 12:44 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Alarm! Political Censorship of Email. > To: general at brlug.net > > Another example of censorship is blocking the access to the websites > outside of us for unskewed information. For example, Al Jazeera during the > height of the Iraqi war. (Now the access is "enabled" to the parts not > censored out.) > > A friend of mine, Born and bread here in New Orleans, was trying to keep > up with the real information from the region, and was unable to get it > directly from US. He had to go via proxy servers in other countries in order > to access the website. > > Petri > > PS. hmm new word.... I had to look up the word "insidious" from the > web.... > > willhill wrote: > > Censorship is insidious. There will never be a more clear sign than the > TruthOut case. > > Network and software freedom are the only cure. > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 11:33 am, Tim Fournet wrote: > > ...And surprisingly enough...... it arrived without being censored! > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.nethttp://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.nethttp://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070920/c0592224/attachment-0001.html
