Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America

acey72 writes "The BBC News are reporting that George W Bush's re-election website (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA. Netcraft spotted the change on Monday, and have a report on the matter. Oh well, at least John Kerry's site still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).

At least the .org's still accessible!

[Anonymous Coward]

though it's a little off-message [georgewbush.org].

Works from Canada...

[deragon]

Works from Montreal, Canada... Are we considered the 51st state? Can we vote? :)

At last

[Joe the Lesser]

Now he can safely discuss security issues!

Fine.

[MadFarmAnimalz]

Then he's going to get blocked on my site in reply.

What's George W. Bush's IP? Anyone know?

Re:Works from Canada...

[miscellaneous_havoc]

Works from Montreal, Canada... Are we considered the 51st state? Can we vote? :)

As long as it's not for Bush!

Diplomatic Oversight

[themesb]

But how will Tony Blair know what to do next?

I bet

[StevenHenderson]

I bet that the Saudis still have access to the site. I mean, he has to get campaign contributions somehow, right?

Re:Bush gets no love

[DavidLeblond]

A website is a place on the internets.

Gahhh sorry I had to!

Re:Works from Canada...

[Anonymous Coward]

No but you are considered North America, last I checked.

Terror Alert!

[henrypijames]

The website has obviously been shut down to prevent terrorist attacks on it, as indicated by credible inteligence reports. Don't be surprised if the Alert Level is raised to red in the next few days!

Kinda backfired didn't it?

[91degrees]

Mike Prettejohn, president of Netcraft, speculated that the blocking decision was taken to cut costs, and traffic, in the run-up to the election on 2 November.

Sadly, a link was then posted to Slashdot, increasing costs and traffic.

haha ...

[phoxix]

Bush uses Microsoft IIS + ASP [netcraft.com] and only recently has switched to Akamai

Kerry uses LAMP [netcraft.com] and has been on Akamai for sometime now ...

We already know which IT dept has won ...

Sunny Dubey

What idiot voted for this jackass the first time?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlike the hoodwinked American public, I think the Saudis know quite well what they're buying.

Re:Works from Canada...

[FearUncertaintyDoubt]

Are we considered the 51st state?

I believe the official term is "America Junior" (credit to H.S.)

Netcraft confirms!

[simgod]

It's official. Netcraft confirms! George Bush is going down! George bush is down!

Re:Fine.

[RadioheadKid]

Make sure you block him on all the internets.

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Re:Not Surprised

[dpilot]

AHA! Here's the secret plan to reduce the budget deficit.

Re:Someone explain to me how this is news

[hal9000(jr)]

I thought Americans were pretty keen on a concept called "free speech"?

Oh - hang on... What year is it again?

We care about free speech only when it comes from us. Except for the DMCA. And the Patriot Act.

Damn, I should move.

Re:Forum abuse perhaps?

[aardvarkjoe]

Either way BFD. Political websites are almost entirely content or truth free. Why bother reading them?

Beats me. Why are you reading Slashdot?

Re:Fine.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd estimate it's about 50-60.

Oh, wait, you said "IP"-- I thought you said "IQ"

Re:Someone explain to me how this is news

[nes11]

heh, I'm furious that Blair has never once campaigned in Oklahoma. How unsensitive to the world is that?!?

Re:Other Way Around

[jotux]

There are websites outside the US? huh...ya learn something new everyday.

Re:Someone explain to me how this is news

[BrokenHalo]

Never mind that, it's the ".com" that says it all. After all, nobody can seriously claim his best interests are not commercial.

Re:Fine.

[smellygit]

I didn't think George W had any Intellectual Property

Re:Someone explain to me how this is news

[tonsofpcs]

Remember, all websites start with 'dubya'.
--
Yea, Right, like I can't type in http://froogle.google.com/froogle ? there isn't even a http://www.froogle.google.com/ -- People need to get a clue.

outside USA == evil

[Anonymous Coward]

He had to block his site from the Evil Doers!

Re:Someone explain to me how this is news

[gfxguy]

Oh, and they'll make you immortal, too!

Maybe not, but John Kerry will make crippled people walk again.

Re:Works from Canada...

[Fnkmaster]

Sometimes I think the only reason we haven't annexed Canada yet is that the Republicans are afraid of adding all those socialist electoral votes.

Of course, now the site will get slashdotted...

[Antifuse]

They went to all this effort, maybe to lower traffic bills, who cares what the real reason was... but now the site will get Slashdotted so any money saved on avoiding international viewers, is pooched. :)

Re:This one works

[glesga_kiss]

Funniest thing I've seen in ages!! Not only does it allow you in, it eats up their CPU to put the page through SSL!

Out of the three video steaming formats, which of them allow you to put them on repeat? ;-)

I've got a whole lab of hosts sitting here doing very little for the next wee while...

Works from Canada .....

[blues-l]

hmmm I wonder what that means?

Because they're infidel scum

[WildBeast]

"I'm invested with a divine mission: to promote the biblical world view in the policy carried out by the USA". - George W. Bush

Maybe God told him to make his website unavailable for foreigners :)

WWJT

[Anonymous Coward]

Who would Jesus Torture?

Although some "Christians" might argue the following logic:

God allowed Jesus to be tortured.
God = Jesus.
Therefore, Jesus allowed Jesus to be tortured.

Golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Jesus says: Do unto others as I (God) would do unto (others) Jesus.
Therefore, Torture others, coz Jesus says it's okay.

When leaders in the Pentagon and Justice Department failed to take the high road and walked away from the Geneva Convention at Abu Gharib and Guantanemo Bay, they began walking the morally dubious path.

Bush's moral certainty excuses immoral activity. Some could compare it to bin Laden's moral certainty that calls for innocent slaughter. Committing crimes in the name of God doesn't make it less wrong.

Re:https://georgewbush.com/

[Anonymous Coward]

How stupid can you be, if you want to shut out the rest of the world at least do it right, Jesus!

Jesus is Bush's sysadmin?!

Well, I guess he does claim to be one of God's closest buddies...

Re:Works from Canada...

[Peyna]

Did we try that once already, and failed? (1812).

Now more than ever - take it down!

[karnat10]

http://65.172.163.222/

summoning the daemons of slashdot...

Typical Bush behavior

[gelfling]

I have my hands over my ears and I'm screaming. I can't hear you I can't hear you I can't hear you

Re:sorry, bro

[Gi77 B4t35]

Seriously... "Blessed are the Peacemakers" ring any bells?

"Fall of the Peacemakers" doesn't, it's more guitarish. But then it is by Molly Hatchet, so what would you expect?

Re:At least the .org's still accessible!

[Anonymous Coward]

But warmer the air gets the less dense it gets. If the air get hot enough you can contain it and make it into a hot air ballon.
If you have enough politicians then there will be enough hot air to fly to the moon....

www.govorgcom.net

[mapmaker]

An illustration of how everyone wants ".com", no matter how appropriate.

The funniest instance I've found of this phenomenon is the website for the Denver, Colorado city government.
Instead of the no-brainer www.denver.gov they use www.denvergov.com and www.denvergov.org.
No, really.

Re:sorry, bro

[tfoss]

Seriously... "Blessed are the Peacemakers" ring any bells?

No it's the cheesemakers. [250x.com]

-Ted

Re:Works from Canada...

[udowish]

no worries, I to was being mostly facetiuos. Please free to drink all the Canadian beer you like, heck we have lots. Instead of gas / oil piplines, I think a new "beer pipe" should be built to benefit you poor yanks. After all, who fun is life when your drinking that stuff you guys call beer and us Canadians call fruit juice?

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Re:At least the .org's still accessible!

[xThinkx]

"will preserve the peace by fostering an era of good relations among the world's great powers" The first step in fostering these relations, is obviously keeping them from seeing my website.

Re:Before Voting for Bush...

[Anonymous Coward]

I really can't understand why you are posting to slashdot. Are you bitter about losing in 2004? Do you aspire to run for office in the future? Maybe the spirit of campaigning just picks you up and carries you along.

You are history. You have even less relevance than Bill Clinton.

I have an opinion, but at least I have a life outside of being a ranting slashdot loser. Maybe you should get one of those too.

Re:This one works

[Anonymous Coward]

For those outside the US who haven't been ad-bombed, check out The Choice. It's one of the ads. You would have thought that campaign managers would have figured out that people get confused about where to put their cross when they vote. After watching the ad I took away the message that I should put an X next to John Kerry. I'm pretty certain that's not what was intended.

You can use https://georgewbush.com/ to see this ad, and all the others.

Re:War is Peace

[Mad Marlin]

Isn't it "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" ?

He is displaying his ignorance of the book by misquoting it, thereby displaying his strength.

Re:At least the .org's still accessible!

[Ohreally_factor]

Wasn't it Lincoln that said, "You can fool some of the Canadians some of the time, but you can't fool all of the Canadians all of the time."