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Pentagon Censors Internet Combat Videos
(Oliver Poole, The Telegraph, 26 July 2006)
The Pentagon is asking US soldiers in Iraq to stop posting private combat videos on to the internet amid fears that they could be regarded as anti-Arab. . . . Many of the digital clips feature explosions, gunfire and even dead bodies, [COMMENT by Lorenzo: Hey, it's a fucking WAR. What they expect to see in these videos.] with the images often set to a soundtrack of rock ballads, rap or heavy metal music. . . . Defence officials believe they could be interpreted as portraying the military as unsympathetic to Arabs and obsessed with barbarism. . . . [COMMENT by Lorenzo: The U.S. military IS barbaric . . . just watch some of the videos and you'll see what I mean.]

posted by LoZo 12:12 PM

 

Hundreds of Iraq War Videos Online at YouTube.com
In case you missed the announcement, that evil bastard Rumsfeld is doing his best to keep cameras away from the front lines of the Bush Crime Family's attack on the civilian population of Iraq. But if you go to YouTube.com and search on "Iraq combat" (no quotes) you'll find hundreds of videos posted by U.S. troops.

Here is one clip that shows how the U.S. tax dollars are being used to destroy the once lovely city of Fallujah:

posted by LoZo 6:53 AM

 

India bloggers angry at net ban
(BBC News, 19 July 2006)
India's burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs. . . . The country's 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders. . . . Some of these sites belong to Google's Blogspot, a leading international web log hosting service. . . . Indian bloggers say that the decision is an attack on freedom of speech. . . . A number of them have started filing petitions under the country's new landmark freedom of information law which gives citizens the right to access information held by the government. . . . Bloggers say the ban has meant that people do not even have access to blogs like the one set up to help the relatives of the victims of the recent train bombings in Mumbai (Bombay), www.mumbaihelp.blogspot.com. . . . Internet professionals and lawyers believe that blocking sites really serves no purpose in a large country like India with an increasingly thriving blogging community. . . . "The ISPs can block a specific site, but the person who runs it can easily tweak its name a bit and return," says Mr Tiwari. . . . There are an estimated 50 million internet users in India, according to ISP industry estimates. . . . Only seven million people subscribe to the internet, of whom 1.5 million receive broadband services.

posted by LoZo 4:21 PM