Posted on 11/27/2014 4:56:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
Yesterday, my girlfriend and I borded an Amtrak passenger train in Stockton to travel to visit her friends in Visalia for Thanksgiving. Amtrak offers its passengers free WIFI as part of their amenities on the trip. As part of the log on, it specifies that Amtrak block access to "offensive" web sites, but otherwise allows free access to the Internet. I agreed to their conditions and found myself connected.
Four attempts to connect to FreeRepublic resulted in being notified that my browser could not connect to the server! Thinking FR might be down, I turned off my WIFI, and reverted to my cellular connection, and was instantly connected to FreeRepublic. Turn on WIFI, no FreeRepublic. MSNBC, there. CNN, likewise. There. But FR, is BLOCKED as an offensive website! I am offended.
Heads up, Jim & John. . . Have you heard about this????
Why use AMTRAK ?
Did you see Willie Green ?
Now we know where Willie Green went. He’s in charge of Internet security for Amtrak!
Did you try any other conservative sites?
Gotta free up bandwidth for the people downloading porn.
It’s run by the government, and that should be expected.
I KNOW you must own an iPhone. Just enable you’re WiFi, and go online that way.
Yeah, how many man hours (and taxpayer dollars) are wasted by government employees downloading porn during work hours?
Had the same thing happen to me years ago at a “free internet kiosk” in Times Square.
FR blocked as a “Hate Site.”
Obama’s new Net Neutrality program.
I’m curious if you can connect to Democratic Underground.
Considering the foul language on that site it should be blocked.
But I’ll wager it is not.
Google once asked if I wanted to block “that” [FR] site.
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.
Well, I’m sure we are offensive to liberal and government organizations. We would be shirking our duty if we weren’t.
You think it’s bad now, you wait until Obama implements Operation Internet Neutrality. Then you won’t be able to log into any right wing sites whatsoever. He knows that he who controls the flow of information controls the minds of the citizens.
I always get a laugh out of that
Proof that FR is a real force in public activism in the body politic.
It’s a stark comparison. However, is it really realistic (now) to send humans further out?
File a formal complaint.
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