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Posted on 07/02/2014 9:35:01 AM PDT by PoloSec
James Varney of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, stayed at the Hyatt Place hotel in Riverhead, NY. He tried to look at the Drudge Report, but was blocked from doing so by his hotel’s internet connection.
In fact, he tried looking at a number of conservative websites, including Powerline and Instapundit. They too were blocked. He then tried a number of liberal websites from Talking Points Memo to DailyKos. None of them had access problems.
His hotel, Hyatt Place, uses Uniguest to connect its guests to the internet.
Digging deeper, I contacted the good people of Uniguest. A cheery online chatter at their corporate website praised my question as a very good one, asked for my e-mail so he could run it up the corporate flagpole and I await that response.
I also spent some time on the phone with Hyatt representatives. Well, most of that time was on hold, actually, but I did eventually get two bright, human voices. Both of them assured me no political line was being enforced.
Neither of them knew for sure but they were quite certain it was all a matter of security – it was virus and malware that prompted the warnings and kickoffs, not a point of view.
This is cropping up more and more and it is often attributed to a virus or malware. The problem, of course, is that these sites are all running different scripts and ads. The Drudge Report is rather minimal in what it runs. But somewhere in the code that Uniguest uses it seems intent on blocking conservative sites.
Uniguest and Hyatt need to offer better explanations than chalking this up to a virus or malware. Public schools are blocking conservative sites and now businesses are too.
I think this problem is only going to escalate. First Uniguest and Google next. Pretty soon conservatives will have to have their own web search engine as the liberals who control access to information will, like with weather temperature data, assure us that only their information is seen.
Sounds like the phone drones have been instructed to say “virus and malware” when anyone complains.
First they tried to control the discussion by controlling Big Gay Media.
Then the internet happened, and people started finding out the truth through independent sites, jumping around their control.
So of course the Leftists now have to go back to outright censorship of any websites that might tell the non-PC truth.
Not really surprising, is it?
If enough customers complain, this will be fixed.
What do those morons hope to gain by blocking conservative sites...since 2/3 of Americans are conservative, do they want to piss off 2/3 of their potential customers or are they stupid enough to think that somehow they are going to convert conservatives into becoming liberals........brainless.......
Google on Verizon Samsung seems to already be doing it to conservative sites only by saying “page unresponsive” “want to close now?”
Wasn’t it a Hyatt that barred a Fox News reporter (specialist in embarrassing left-wingers) from a loony feminist convention recently? I’m sure a Freeper knows more details.
Avoid Hyatt hotels, as well as Mexico, for your vacations.
The Left will continue to block until it no longer can. The sooner it can’t the better.
It should amaze people that schools and stuff block conservative opinion sites but will fight tooth and nail to keep porn available for the children
Jesse Watters at the NOW convention.
Hyatt should be ashamed of itself.
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A couple of years back, I stayed in a motel, I don’t even remember the name of it, F.R. was blocked, I checked D.U. and it was blocked too. Management told me that it was because of the language used on those sites and that they were trying to be “family friendly”.
I couldn’t argue with him.
Duck duck go!
Frighten the low-information types into acquiescence.
The Matrix has a vi-iiirus.
It’s called liebralism.
I have refused to even use the hotel systems. My phone has a hotspot and unlimited data.
They take “virus and malware” cover-up and divert lessons from the IRS.
The really big multinationals, like Hyatt and Google, take their marching orders from the Obama Regime. If they don’t, they get “Kochified”.
This is how liberals defend free speech.
Remember, Hyatt is the company owned by the family of Joel Hyatt, failed Senate candidate, left-wing benefactor, and onetime son-in-law of the late Communist Howie Metzenbaum.
Yeah. There’s a virus so smart it constructs a firewall for only conservative sites. I believe that. Now let me tell you about the time I saw the Tooth Fairy.
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