A Californian Traveling In The UAE Wants To Read VDARE.COM But Can't
Bret Ludwig
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."