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2004-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 8:00:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I doubt it's the Bush campaign who blocked the site. Sounds like it's your web access company in Germany making decisions about what is appropriate content for you to see... Maybe you should give them a call.

Especially since you can see it via the IP address, looks like they played around with their DNS server. If it was done by the Bush people they'd have blocked all via your IP address and you typing in IP addresses wouldn't have brought up the site.

You're being censored by your provider... since you're german I'm betting it's partly government owned... which if true means your government is censoring you from political content... welcome to China... oops I mean liberated Europe.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-10-28 8:56:20 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-10-28 8:56:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 No it's not censored... the Bush campaign has said that they did that.

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.georgewbush.com/" on this server.

That's a server message, not an ISP message

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 9:01:42 AM|| 2004-10-28 9:01:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This from Netcraft

The official campaign web site for U.S. President George W. Bush appears to be rejecting visitors from most points outside the United States, while allowing access from U.S. locations.

Netcraft monitors web site response times from seven locations, including four within the United States and three in other countries. Since Monday morning, requests to GeorgeWBush.com from stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney, Australia have failed, while the four U.S. monitoring stations show no performance problems. Web users in Canada report they are able to visit the site.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 9:08:22 AM|| 2004-10-28 9:08:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's very simple -- they're just minimizing traffic costs.

Posted by Tom 2004-10-28 9:19:44 AM|| 2004-10-28 9:19:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I stand corrected. I doubt it's a bandwidth thing...

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-10-28 9:23:40 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-10-28 9:23:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Building a Safer World"...and then shutting out the world doesn't seem a terribly bright idea to me.

Public relations desaster, sorry.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 9:29:58 AM|| 2004-10-28 9:29:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think the "costs" the campaign is trying to limit is a "world-wide" attempt to crash the system so no one can view it. Then again, what do I know.

emmmmmmmm...I DO KNOW I'm voting for Bush!

Posted by RN 2004-10-28 9:41:40 AM|| 2004-10-28 9:41:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 RN - I'm sure that's the reason why.

Iâm voting for Bush too. I'm so sick of some of these independents who say, "they still haven't decided". Anyone who hasn't decided yet will go to Kerry. Why? Because if you follow politics at all, and you still can't decide- you are weak and indecisive. Thus it follows that you will likewise be attracted to Kerry's compulsive need to keep all options open, rather than to make an executive decision and move on.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-28 10:20:56 AM|| 2004-10-28 10:20:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Chances are they started to get some sort of DOS attack, and fixed the problem by simply not responding to the source.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-10-28 10:25:25 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-10-28 10:25:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Try taking the last "/" off of the URL. Some webservers (notably Apache" interpret that as a request for a directory listing.

Posted by mojo 2004-10-28 10:48:02 AM|| 2004-10-28 10:48:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 TGA, I've sent an email to the webmaster regarding this issue.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-10-28 10:54:58 AM|| 2004-10-28 10:54:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Seafarious, the German press (and others) report that this is a deliberate blocking. And they are poking fun at the fact that GWB is afraid of international visitors etc...
This also blocks out (non military) Americans.
I understand that DOS is a serious problem, but cutting off the world does not seem the appropriate measure. Especially when the IP is still reachable. http://origin.georgewbush.com also works.

Don't forget journalists get their info from candidate's websites, too. Does the Bush campaign want them to go to johnkerry.com only?
I go regularily to GWB to check out new ads or find new "ammunition".

I repeat, this doesn't look good.

Oh btw, BILD, the biggest newspaper in Germany (6 million readers daily) endorses Bush!

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 11:11:39 AM|| 2004-10-28 11:11:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 TGA, if they're getting a ton of DOS attacks they have probably have no choice. It's sad that it's come to that... but when it comes down to it Bush doesn't need to convince the rest of the world that he should be re-elected... he just needs to convince americans.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-10-28 11:25:52 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-10-28 11:25:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well not to worry Americans overseas from Pa. It wouldn't matter at this point anyway. Your ballots won't be here in time due to our illustrious ~~crooked~~ Governer Rendell, who has in his desire to scrap the miltary vote overseas has also effectively scrapped all overseas ballots due to not extending the deadline to receive them in Pa. Not to worry though, all our convicted convicts get a chnace to vote. Thanks alot Governor fuckwit.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-10-28 11:38:42 AM|| 2004-10-28 11:38:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 It looks like the IP is blocked now, too.
Sorry Bush folks, this is very lame. For many reasons.

Going through a US proxy still works.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 2:46:53 PM|| 2004-10-28 2:46:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 It may be both "lame" and *necessary* because of a DOS attack.

Posted by Crusader 2004-10-28 2:53:22 PM|| 2004-10-28 2:53:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Netcraft has "business as usual"... no, it is lame, sorry.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-28 2:59:39 PM|| 2004-10-28 2:59:39 PM|| Front Page Top