The military-industrial-entertainment complex strikes back!

[Paul Mobbs]

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The promise of the "people's media democracy" from new digitial media services 
appears to have hit a snag -- it's in the hands of corporate bread-heads who 
don't like people saying nasty things about their chums in the military-
industrial-entertainment complex.

I think the chasm in the common sense of campaigners who reply on the 'Net for 
their activities is highlighted in the article when it states:

"ThinkProgress tried other protest websites, like AmericansforProsperity.org 
and TeaPartyPatriots.org, and both messages were sent smoothly. However, 
emails relating to the OccupyWallSt.org protest were blocked with the 
following message:
    Your message was not sent
    Suspicious activity has been detected on your account."


For more background goto https://occupywallst.org/

Bsically, the lesson is not to use the mainstream digital services -- use 
operators who specialise in the needs of the activist community (e.g., see 
http://www.gn.apc.org/, or outside the UK see http://www.apc.org/).

P.



http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/68-68/7517-yahoo-admits-
to-blocking-wall-street-protest-emails
Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests 
(Updated)
Lee Fang, Reader Supported News, 20th September 2011

Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against 
Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think 
again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails 
relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple 
accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the “Occupy Wall 
Street” demonstrations.

Over the weekend, thousands gathered for a “Tahrir Square”-style protest of 
Wall Street’s domination of American politics. The protesters, organized 
online and by organizations like Adbusters, have called their effort “Occupy 
Wall Street” and have set up the website: www.OccupyWallSt.org. However, 
several YouTube users posted videos of themselves trying to email a message 
inviting their friends to visit the Occupy Wall St campaign website, only to 
be blocked repeatedly by Yahoo. View a video of ThinkProgress making the 
attempt with the same blocked message experienced by others (click full screen 
for a better view of the text) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP2LREhJH4U

ThinkProgress tried other protest websites, like AmericansforProsperity.org 
and TeaPartyPatriots.org, and both messages were sent smoothly. However, 
emails relating to the OccupyWallSt.org protest were blocked with the 
following message (emphasis added):

    Your message was not sent
    Suspicious activity has been detected on your account. To protect your 
account and our users, your message has not been sent.
    If this error continues, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care for further 
help.
    We apologize for the inconvenience.

ThinkProgress has sent a request for more information to Yahoo, and will post 
any reply once we have received it with Yahoo’s explanation for its apparent 
censorship.

It’s not the first time Yahoo has been accused of political censorship. Yahoo 
officially partners with the repressive Chinese regime to provide the government 
with access to emails related to groups viewed as dissidents. An explosive 
investigation by Der Spiegel found that Yahoo provided Chinese authorities 
with access to emails from journalists, and the snooping resulted in the same 
journalists being sent to prison camps.

The Occupy Wall Street protests have continued, but if you own a Yahoo e-mail 
account, you might not know about it. 


Update: We’re continuing to monitor Yahoo’s mail service and have now been 
able to send messages containing the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” and its 
website on some Yahoo accounts. On other accounts, however, Yahoo is still 
blocking the messages. 


Update: Yahoo’s customer care Twitter account acknowledges blocking the 
emails, but says it was an unintentional error:
    “We apologize 4 blocking ‘occupywallst.org’ It was not intentional & 
caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay.”
Yahoo’s main Twitter account adds:
    “Thanks to @YahooMail users & @ThinkProgress for catching problem w/ 
#Occupywallst.org mail. Prob is fixed, but there may be residual delays.”


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nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
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that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
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