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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
OT: Na-Na-Na, We Can't Hear You
Netcraft reports that the GOP websites www.gop.com, www.rnc.org and www.GeorgeWBush.com are all dropping traffic from outside the United States. Not only is the administration uninterested in listening to anybody outside their number, but they're not even interested in talking, either... to be sure, some of this is certainly directed at squelching foreign DoS attacks, but the measures seem more than a little extreme. Surely they've heard of Akamai?
Comments:
1) The GOP has a website for members outside the United States (http://www.republicansabroad.com/). Could that be part of the reason they're shutting down access to the main site?
2) Who cares? It's the web site of a private political organization and it contains very little in the way of information or communication. It's just there to collect money for the party. Now if it were the State Department's website that was shut down, then yeah, I'd see the problem.
2) Who cares? It's the web site of a private political organization and it contains very little in the way of information or communication. It's just there to collect money for the party. Now if it were the State Department's website that was shut down, then yeah, I'd see the problem.
1) I'm not sure you're correct about political parties being private entities. I'm pretty sure that 60's-era court decisions forced that hand.
2) As to who cares -- sure, in the main, this is immaterial. But it is kind of bizarre.
2) As to who cares -- sure, in the main, this is immaterial. But it is kind of bizarre.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 sort of took care of the idea that political parties are private entities.
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