Clamping Down on the Internet

Several other bloggers have been "watching the watchers" lately, so to speak. Here's a brief roundup.

At Ego, Martin Lindeskog weighs in twice with posts on Internet Police in Red China and the collision between campaign finance "reform" and blogging. From another post in the former:

My blogs are now banned in communist China!

Mine, too! How flattering that the Chinese government feels the need to limit access to my dashed-off tripe! Maybe they'd consider paying me not to write! It might be cheaper and easier for them!

Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds also have pertinent posts concerning the threat to our own freedom of speech here in America.

On a more amusing note, it looks like North Korea doesn't know how to take a compliment when it swamps their servers, so they've censored themselves! Malkin has an amusing post about how Boing-Boing linked to an animation put out by the North Korean government. The ensuing 'lanche caused the animation to be replaced by the following testy, Team America-does-Kim-Jong-"Mentally"-Il message:

Access to the requested object was denied.

Due to some inconsiderate people linking directly to our multimedia we were forced to take the content offline since it generated too much traffic.

This kind of careless linking to high-profile sites is typical of the internet where people no longer respect that such links could make free content less available....

So what if the accent in the movie was technicarry long? Leed the rast rine of the above message rike the Supleme Readel a few time. It rike a bad tongue twistel.

-- CAV