Posted on 07/06/2007 5:35:22 AM PDT by period end of story
I began getting the emails several days ago: Jihad Watch readers telling me that they had been accustomed to reading the site at work, but now their employer had blocked access to the Jihad Watch site on company computers. Many reported that the ban on Jihad Watch was explained with the assertion that Jihad Watch contained “hate speech.” This was true even in Federal Government offices. And it wasn’t only the Feds. Jihad Watch was blocked, readers informed me, on the computers of the State of Connecticut; the City of Chicago; Bank of America; Fidelity Investments; Site Coach; GE IT; JPMorgan Chase; Defense Finance and Accounting Services; Johnson Controls, Inc. IT; Boeing; Tenet Hospitals in North Carolina; Provisio; the Sabre Group TSG; Wachovia bank; and others: several people have written in to tell me that as of this week they can no longer access Jihad Watch at work, but haven’t told me where they work.
This was not a simple case of employers being annoyed with their workers lying down on the job and spending time reading Jihad Watch instead of working. This is an attempt to silence us, as an email from a federal employee made abundantly clear when he noted which sites were blocked – and which sites weren’t:
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemagazine.com ...
This issue has nothing to do with so called “hate speech”. It is all about denial.
Most of the companies are pretty "lefty oriented" and I'd be willing to bet CAIR et al would pay them to add the blocks, or add a specific word combination to dynamic traffic scanning to create new block on the fly...
Sounds to me like they do not want the truth to be found out about the musscums. While it may tick off some employers that you are reading such controversal material on company time it seems that they would rather ignore what these people are trying to do to the USA and other free countries. All I can say is to read it at home and let it go. Outside of our German social democrat here at work every one else keeps alert of the constant terror threat.
Hmmm. Just tried JW.org where I work (see sig line) and it’s not blocked-—yet. We’ll see.
TC
Please post the name of your company if you are blocked (let’s not be shy about it).
Access to the Internet is a not an employee right.
True, but that’s not really the point.
There is a K-12 charter school in PA (one of whose founders is Bill Bennett of all people) which blocked Free Republic on its computers!
Anything contrary to the liberal line, is eligible for “hate speech” status.
jw.org is a jehovas witness site.
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
more discussion here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017263.php#comments
HOORAY Robert Spencer and all of the great posters at jihadwatch!
FR is blocked at my work. That’s why I hate going into the office.
To: TexasCajun True, but that’s not really the point.
But it is, employees are subjected to employers rules and guidelines. Employers own their private networks, their routers & gateways, they own employee email. They can do whatever they like with their equipment no matter how biased or liberal or restrictive they may be.
No one is keeping those employees from accessing the site from home where they are the boss.
Please don't get me wrong, Jihad Watch is a great site and provides a great service.
Maybe if enough share-holders complained something might be done.
The article that Spencer wrote is merely pointing out the fact that a certain site is being blocked by some companies: and that is the point.
I understand your comment about a company having the right to monitor, etc. its employees while on the job.
They do everything in there power to undermine America's security, blame the world's problems on Ameica & portray Conservatives as haters.
They want the public to hear/see only their liberal, PC view.
Talk Radio is Conservatives main venue to inform the public and we see how hard liberals want to stifle that, to censor any alternative or rebuttal to their ideas.
It's a constant battle we must fight.
Just seems to me that I am in a lot of trouble with my Musscum neighbors.
I just got word that Jihad Watch is now viewable again at Fidelity Investments, where it was banned last week. I've also learned that the Federal Government ban is spotty, prevailing in some offices but not in others.
Many thanks for all your support on this. If you work anywhere that the site was banned last week (and if you see this perhaps at home), please try it again now and let me know. I've been emailing a web filtering corporation, and others have as well, and maybe our efforts are beginning to pay off. I'll keep you posted, and thanks again.
UPDATE: More good news comes in an email from Jihad Watch reader Bob:
After reading about the banning of JihadWatch through many companies' servers, I checked last night (7/5) to see if I could reach JihadWatch through Whirlpool's servers. Sure enough, the site was banned. Then I checked CAIR's site and sure enough, I was able to view that site (!).
This morning I planned on contacting the corporation's webmasters asking them to either unban JihadWatch or ban CAIR...their choice. After just reading that the ban was lifting, I just checked JihadWatch again through Whirlpool's servers and, behold, the JihadWatch site is now viewable through the company's servers.
I'm setting a reminder to check that JihadWatch is available through the servers in the future. I can see the ban dropping back into place once the "bad press" has died down.
Thanks for your work and report.
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
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