11/27/2015
Re: James Fulford’s article Internet Filters — Private Sector First Amendment Workaround, or Gov't Censorship In Disguise?
From: A Talk Radio Listener
Gateway Pundit posted this:
Canadian conservative author Mark Steyn discovered Friday that his website, steynonline.com is on a United Airlines blacklist that blocks accessing the site while passengers use the airline’s in-flight WiFi system. Steyn learned this by being a passenger on United.Steyn posted to Twitter about his being blacklisted along with a screen grab:
Hey, @united . I’m on your plane right now using your WiFi, which bans my website: https://t.co/GCIbQSKTTn Why? pic.twitter.com/KMd0y2HvnT
— Mark Steyn (@MarkSteynOnline) October 30, 2015
A closer look at the URL of the screen grab shows that the word ‘blacklist’ is part of the United WiFi re-direct page Steyn got when trying to access his site along with the message, “This site cannot be viewed on United Wi-Fi…Steyn talked about it while subbing for Limbaugh today. He’s been fighting with them for more than a month, but there has been no response from United. He found that the CAIR website works on United.FLY THE FASCIST SKIES: Mark Steyn’s Website ‘Blacklisted’ by United Airlines WiFi
Kristinn Taylor, GateWayPundit, Oct 30th, 2015 5
See previous letters from the same reader.
By James Fulford writes: The United Airlines FAQ says this:
Does United Wi-Fi restrict what content I may view?United does not allow customers to access certain websites that may be inappropriate or unsuitable for inflight viewing.
United probably hasn’t made this decision itself — corporations buy a blacklist from some faceless IT filtering vendor, which I wrote about in 2006 and 2008. (If you're not at 50, 000 feet, you can generally read anything you like on your tablet or smartphone.)
However, what interested me was a really close view of Mark Steyn’s inflight screenshot:
It includes a TakiMag article which looks like Steve Sailer’s Houellebecq review ‘Submission’ Statement, and a tab with our own distinctive icon which looks like VDARE.com’s Kevin Michael Grace article Paul Ryan Presaged: Canada’s Conservative Party Elects a New People — Which In Turn Elects Liberal Party. Duh!
I am happy to see that Steyn is keeping up with our Canadian coverage, and a little startled to see that United, which bans Mark Steyn, allows its readers to access Steve Sailer on TakiMag and VDARE.com.
This is a content archive of VDARE.com, which Letitia James forced off of the Internet using lawfare.