Re: US government censorship

I would be very surprised if the US government would use the Whitehouse web
domain to "censor" sites, if you recall, the ICANN webservers or the ISP
webservers are a much better way to do this.

I suspect this is another of the urban legends. You may also want to check
whether your mouse pointer was moving over a whitehouse weblink!.

Hope this helps and I would be really interested in reading about any
replies you get from the officials

Yours Sincerely

bd

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Siegmund [mailto:Tetworld@highstream.net]
Sent: 22 March 2002 15:04
To: Peace; Peace Studies; World Systems Network; World Systems Network
Subject: FW: US government censorship



Please see my email below--are any of you experiencing the same interference
from the White House?

Mark Siegmund
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> From: Mark Siegmund <Tetworld@highstream.net>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:57:36 -0800
> To: TetCenter-Topica <tetcenter@topica.com>
> Subject: US government censorship
> 
> Hi, during the last week I've noticed that when I am accessing certain
> sites--e.g., CNN, Netscape, NY Times, Washington Post, etc., as the page
> loads, across the bottom of the page, while  loading, appears the url
(amongst
> others while loading)--www.whitehouse.gov
> 
> Today, while trying to access an article at http://www.cnn.com "The
Dilemma
> for Israel...", www.whitehouse.gov appeared while the article was loading,
and
> instead of the article page appearing, a page at the White House appeared,
> saying that, "certain documents from the previous administration have been
> removed from this site, etc"--then, while trying to send an email to the
> Washington Post (using the contact us link at the Post website), to ask if
> they knew anything about this, the same thing happened--a  White House
page
> appeared with the same message, and I was therefore, not permitted to send
the
> email to the Washington Post.
> 
> I do not know if the White House is censoring my access, or is this a
general
> censorship--so, I would be grateful if some of you would try and do as I
have
> done and see if you obtain the same results.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark Siegmund