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What is this? FreeRepublic is blocked on Amtrak WIFI as an offensive site!
Swordmaker
| November 27, 2014
| Swordmaker
Posted on 11/27/2014 4:56:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Proxy Servers are your friend.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:34:26 PM PST
by
Clay Moore
("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
To: Swordmaker
It’s blocked on yahoo too
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:35:07 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Swordmaker
Not to defend AMTRAK, but they do take a beating quite regularly around here.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:37:52 PM PST
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: KoRn
I KNOW you must own an iPhone. Just enable youre WiFi, and go online that way. Trust you to miss the point. My iPad is cellular connection capable without the iPhone WIFI. but you'll be happy to know the vast majority of the passengers on the full train were using Apple products. Very few had anything else. It was amazing seeing how many were online.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:39:23 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Then take the opportunity to troll DUh for LOLZ.
And write a sternly worded letter to the CEO.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:39:46 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Swordmaker
It’s their wifi. So what?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Did you try the DUmpster, Salon, Daily KOS, Huffington Post, CNN, et al for the same treatment? Dollars to doughnuts they would have been available. CNN was there, the default news site on Amtrak landing page, wouldn't you know. I'm going to check the others tomorrow on our return leg.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:42:53 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Vaquero
>>
And CHI-TOWN is going to be the hub city.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:44:00 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Swordmaker
Given that it's a government enterprise you can be sure that that DUmpster site was up and running smoothly.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:44:10 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
To: Jim Robinson
Well, Im sure we are offensive to liberal and government organizations. We would be shirking our duty if we werent. Oh, I agree. . . but Amtrak is supposed to be independent. Apolitical, doncha know? Sorta like the Post Office. LOL! Betcha GLBT advocacy and sites of similar ilk have free access.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:47:54 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:50:28 PM PST
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Swordmaker
Was FR not available on the cell carrier network?
I ALSO have a WiFi capable iPad(LOL - you said that as if it’s something special) My wife and two of our children have one too. We also have a Mac as a main workstation in our home for everyone to use.
Usually when I run into stupid web filters like that, I just turn off WLAN, and use the cell net, rather than running to the internet to bitch about it. You seem to be so defensive. Usually you’re more friendly. Have you had a bad day, or something? lol
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:50:40 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Swordmaker
Commie run gubmint train.Go figure.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:51:04 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Swordmaker
Why use the parasitic subsidized transport for the freeloaders?
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:55:06 PM PST
by
sagar
Comment #35 Removed by Moderator
To: Swordmaker
I ride Amtrak several times a month (three days ago) and I have NEVER had a problem accessing FR.
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
“Its their wifi. “
Their means the tax payers.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:58:13 PM PST
by
sagar
To: KoRn
Sorry Korn. Yeah, I've had a bad week. I've had the flu. But it's not the point. Amtrak is a site of public accommodation owned by that public and subsidized by that public. . . which specifically stated they only block sites that are "offensive." They have chosen to block FreeRepublic's views from the public as "offensive" for political reasons.
They are taking sides in the political discourse by censoring political discussion to benefit liberals. THAT we should cry out against. . . loudly and resoundingly.
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posted on
11/27/2014 5:59:35 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
Sorry to hear that SM.
FR us hardly offensive. Well... I’m SURE it’s offensive to any Progressive that might read it, but the mods do a good job of getting rid of overtly bad comments.
Hope you are feeling better. :)
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posted on
11/27/2014 6:06:20 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: sagar
Why use the parasitic subsidized transport for the freeloaders? Because my Girlfriend and I were tired of a 4 1/2 hour one-way drive, that three times in the last seven round trips we almost bought the farm, because of idiot drivers changing lanes into us, driving crazy, or driving drunk on i-5 or California HWY 99. Trips for which the cost of gasoline was 50% more than two round trip tickets on the train which took just 3 hours. . . Add to all that this trip was for the day before and after Thanksgiving where the traffic on those two freeways would have been an order of magnitude worse than when the idiots tried to kill us.
Besides, the Amtrak subsidy is probably now a lot less than the "bail-out" cost of all those incomplete "shovel ready" construction projects along California's freeways and bridges that were started but no one ever seems to be working onyet leave traffic flows impeded due to blocked lanes, k-bars, and unwidened construction lanes, that have been there for five years. . . No doubt waiting for Obama shovels.
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posted on
11/27/2014 6:20:06 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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