Troops in Iraq Denied Access to Some Blogs

Posted on March 7, 2006

Wonkette is reporting that US Marines in Iraq no longer have access to some blogs, including Wonkette. Wonkette received an email from a marine notifying them of the blockage.

Just to let you know, the US Marines have blocked access to Wonkette along with numerous other sites such as personal email (i.e. Yahoo, AT&T, Hotmail, etc), blogs that don't agree with the government point of view, personal websites, and some news organizatons (sic). This has taken effect as of the beginning of February.

Wonkette has an update with another email from a Marine in Iraq that shows access to sites like BillOreilly.com are allowed while access to sites like the Al Franken Show are blocked. If the blocking of blogs follows this same pattern then it is easy to guess which blogs are censored and which blogs are probably not.