February 12, 2008
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A Californian Traveling In The UAE Wants To Read VDARE.COM But Can’t
Re: Today’s Letter:
A Reader Can’t Access VDARE.COM From The Muslim World
From: William Constable (e-mail
him)
Like your correspondent from a year ago, I am in
Dubai and tried
to log on to VDARE.COM for a read.
A blocking message popped up saying that the website
is “not appropriate” for “the cultural,
political, religious and moral values of the United Arab
Emirates.”
Last year’s letter writer made the same observation
but he failed to mention that also deemed inappropriate,
I suppose for similar reasons, is
Michelle Malkin’s blog.
Nor did your reader note that apparently acceptable
to the Muslim world (since I could access them) are the
overtly racist sites for
La Raza, the
Mexica Movement and
La Voz de Aztlan
I guess the UAE perceives itself as so morally
superior to the west that our views don’t deserve to be
heard.
On the other hand, if the UAE is reading VDARE.COM
closely enough that it feels compelled to censor it,
then you are obviously having an impact worldwide.
Constable is an airline
pilot living in Southern California and a registered
member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. His
previous letter wonder why the ACLU isn’t defending
border patrol agents Jose Ramos and Ignacio Campeon is
here
And this is James
Fulford’s comment from a year ago regarding the original
letter: “The UAE has
only one internet provider, which makes censorship
easy, and there's not a lot we can do about
their censorship policies, short of invading them
and imposing democracy and civil rights, an exercise
that many people consider more trouble than it's worth.
But there is a place that's supposed to already have
democracy, civil rights, and freedom of speech and
that's the USA. We've had a
lot of trouble with internet filtering trying to
silence us, and we appeal to our readers to
report any instance of VDARE.com being blocked by
some stupid program installed in your computer—once
we know it's happening, our lawyers can deal with it.”
