Pro-union website blocked in Wisconsin state Capitol (CNN)

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Pro-union website blocked in Wisconsin state Capitol

By the CNN Wire Staff
February 22, 2011 1:50 p.m. EST

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- A left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters in Wisconsin was partially blocked as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol over a controversial budget bill.

The website, defendwisconsin.org, could not be accessed on Monday and into Tuesday morning in the Capitol building, where crowds assembled over proposed legislation that would increase the costs of benefits to public employees and curb their collective-bargaining rights.

Wisconsin Democratic Party press secretary Graeme Zielinski blamed Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers -- who returned to work Tuesday -- for causing the outage.

"In a direct assault on the First Amendment, Scott Walker's administration is blocking access in the Wisconsin Capitol to opposition websites," Zielinski said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/22/wisconsin.budget/index.html

[movonne]

1. It is beginning to sound like Egypt and Libya...taking down our

way of communicating with each other..

[malaise]

4. And that's why Egypt and Libya

matter

[FreakinDJ]

2. Right out of the Mubarak playbook

[AllyCat]

3. Did the Koch Bros prop up Mubarek too? Or is this just corporations

worried about losing a bag or two of their sum total millions of bags of money?