Bush only for Americans?

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Mayax

Originally posted by: Sunner


Also, it's noteworthy that both Ralph Nader's and John Kerry's pages are available to everyone, maybe they have alot more money to burn on bandwidth than Bush&Co?

Now you're just whining like a little french girl. It's not a government web-site. It's paid for by the campaign. The NASA site is government paid for.

You've been given a good reason why, pipe down and deal with it.

The Whitehouse web-site is fully fucntional and you can find everything you need to know about our government there. Enjoy.

If you want to continue with that nonsensical rant, let me get some wine and music so I can savor it better.

I'm used to hearing it in French but I guess I can settle for English.

Good work.
Not only did you not address any of my questions, but you managed to flame the French as well.
Though I guess I shouldn't expect anything else in AT P&N :roll:

Country of the free indeed :roll:

Just one question.
If this is about money(bandwith costs), how much do you think the additional bandwidth from other countries would cost as opposed to other activities in the election campaign?

Honestly, I'd prefer anyone but Bush to win, but I'm not all that concerned, what worries me about the US in general(no matter who wins) is the attitude of the people supporting the political parties.
As long as something goes along the lines of their parties, anything goes.

Now, I'm not overly interested in what www.georgewbush.com has to say, I spent maybe 2-3 minutes looking when I went there through a proxy, what does interest me is that a nation that claims to hold some sort of moral highground on the basis of being "the greatest democracy on earth" shuts others out of their campaign sites for no apparent reason(the bandwidht reason, if you hadn't already figured it out, is bull$hit, nothing more).

That's what I would expect of the regime in China, not of the president of the United States.

The Aficionado
Are you saying Bush&Co doesn't have anything to do with their official campaign site?
And are you saying there are fewer trolls on the Republican side than the Democratic/Independant one, and hence Nader/Kerry can afford to keep their sites public while Bush has to shut down everyone not located in the US?
Not to mention, one would expect the vast majority of these rabid Democarats to reside within the US, hence they'd be able to see the site in question anyway.

Anyone, how about the Americans living in other countries? Are they not worth the trouble?

[edit] Bleh, accidently quoted my post instead of editing, but you know what I mean... [/edit]

 

[Siwy]

Originally posted by: walkur
This is odd, the website www.georgewbush.com cannot be reached from different cities around the world.
I'm in Amsterdam myself and i can't visit the site.

stats from netcraft

Last I heard there are bout 4 million Americans traveling and living abroad. Excluding them is kind of silly. I?m sure that countries being invaded/liberated by US might also want to take a peak at what the future might hold for them?

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

I'm not sure why it makes any difference one way or the other, to be honest. You guys can't vote here anyway

However, as an IT geek, I'll just say that it's a common enough way to limit bandwidth usage. You'll find that a lot of file sharing sites are strictly regional.

Jason

 

[aphex]

Where near Amesterdam do you live?

 

[dmcowen674]

It's down for overseas and down on purpose.

The Propaganda machine is strictly for neocons in the Continental U.S.:

10=27-2004 Bush's Campaign Site Reported Blocking

"The Bush campaign told media the outage was "no big deal" and offered no specific explanation for the outage."

"Since Monday morning, requests to GeorgeWBush.com from stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney, Australia have failed, while the four U.S. monitoring stations show no performance problems. Web users in Canada report they are able to visit the site," Netcraft said.

Netcraft did not report any reason for the blockage. "We can't say precisely, except that it seems to be a decision by the maintainers of the Web site," Rich Miller, an analyst at Netcraft, said in a telephone interview.