US Library of Congress blocking Wikileaks (staff AND visitors)

[rainbow4321]

Will they just GIVE UP already..the information is out there already and it doesn't seem that is going AWAY anytime soon!


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/library_of_congress_blocks_access_to_wikileaks.php


The Library of Congress has blocked access to the Wikileaks site on its staff computers and on the wireless network that visitors use, two sources tell TPM.

The error message reportedly reads:

Ad or Website blocked by LC DNSBH. Advertisements or websites that may be malicious are blocked.
If this message appears in lieu of an advertisement (i.e., on part of the page), the advertisement site may be malicious. However the website is safe to use.

If this message appears on a page by itself, the website is blocked due to potential malicious content.

[asdjrocky]

1. Freedom? What's that? nt

[avaistheone1]

2. When I go to the airport now

I ask myself the same question.



k&r

[Radical Activist]

3. A library blocking access to information?

No professional librarian come up with that idea. I wonder who gave them the order.

[rainbow4321]

4. Prob the same people who are telling troops they can't access

mainstrea media sites on "unclassified networks"


http://beta.gawker.com/#!5705639/us-military-in-iraq-tries-to-intimidate-soldiers-into-not-reading-wikileaks


A tipster wrote to tell us that "the Army's unclassified, NIPRNET network in Iraq has blocked every major news website because of the Wikileaks issue," going on to say that Foxnews.com, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, the Huffington Post, and a variety of other sites are blocked on the Army's unclassified network. A spokesperson for U.S. forces in Iraq disputed that claim, saying that the web sites aren't actually blocked—it's just that attempts to access them on the unclassified network brings up a warning page saying that you're about to break the law:

not blocked any news websites from being read. Because of the Wikileaks release of secret documents and their easy availability on the web, USF-I has posted a warning page NIPRNet computers go to first. This page simply warns the user that the website they are about to view may contain classified documents and that such documents should not be viewed, downloaded, or distributed on NIPR computers. There is a button at the bottom of this warning page that then allows the user to go to the website.