Scott "Hosni" Walker Cutting Off Internet Access To Thwart Protesters?

[kpete]

Is Scott Walker Cutting Off Internet Access To Thwart Protesters?

Our guest blogger is Mike Elk, a freelance labor journalist and third generation union organizer based in Washington, D.C. You can follow him for more updates on Wisconsin on twitter at @MikeElk.

According to pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) may be taking a page from former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak and cutting off internet access to key protest organizers within the state Capitol building.

If you are in the Capitol attempting to access the internet from a free wifi connection labeled “guest,” you cannot access the site http://www.defendwisconsin.org/
The site has been used to provide updates on what is happening, where you can volunteer, and where supplies and goods are needed to support protesters. Administrators of the website were notified on Monday that the page is being blocked. Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate says that the site was put on a blacklist typically used to filter out pornography sites so that protestors inside the Capitol could not access this key site.

Former Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Charles Hoornstra said that, if Walker is blocking the website, it could be a violation of state and federal laws concerning free speech laws. The accusation by the Wisconsin Democratic Party accompanies an accusation by the Teaching Assistants Association that Wisconsin state authorities caught off wife access to a room they had taken over as a headquarters inside of the Capitol.

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Walker’s decision to take steps to block certain types of internet access to protestors comes as a new poll shows that public support for Walker is plummeting. A poll of Wisconsin voters, conducted by Democratic pollster GQR Research for the AFL-CIO between Feb. 16 and 20, shows support for organized labor in Wisconsin as high while support for Governor Walker is plummeting.

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/22/wisconsin-protest-internet/

[Buzz Clik]

1. Hm. Not sure that's a good parallel.

It's kinda the same but kinda not. As a matter of course of doing business, internet access to certain websites can be cut off using an employers internet connection.

Those with smartphones or using other means of accessing the net will be just fine.

[Poboy]

5. I think its a perfect parrallel, and I'm sure of it.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Looks like you and I are certain of exact opposite conclusions on this issue.

:shrug:

[Poboy]

19. According to your own words, I'd say you are wrong again.

[Buzz Clik]

28. Well, I think I'm right.

Shall we continue this idiocy for another round?

[Poboy]

29. Well, you'll really clutch your pearls over this-

Dear People of Wisconsin, Anonymous is providing this document to the protestors in the Madison Capitol building who arebeing blocked from accessing http://www.defendwisconsin.org and other sites.
We are ALWAYS against censorship, and stand in solidarity with you in the cause of human rights.

Use the below list of proxies by browsing to the URL specified, then entering"http://www.defendwisconsin.org" in the form field provided:

http://kproxy.com(verified working for all pages and forms)

http://proxify.com(does not allow submitted forms/comments)

http://www.aftershockforums.com/board/proxy/(seems to work for forms, slow)


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Expect us - always.

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/49344900/Wisconsin-Proxies

[Buzz Clik]

32. Well, thanks for summarizing your points. It's clear why Walker and Mubarak are identical twins.

Obsess much?

You get the final word. I've lost interest.

[Enthusiast]

36. We know you and your position well. nt

[Buzz Clik]

37. Really. Ok ... what's my favorite color?

Who did I vote for president in 1992? Where was I living at the time?

:eyes:

[Aerows]

15. Yes, it is

because it's taxpayer funded, and they are cutting off taxpayer voices. It's the people's house because they fund it, especially for something so simple as organizing a clear exercising of democracy.

Would you feel the same if they blocked the ability to call certain phone numbers from the available phones?

If government were a corporation (which would be fascism) you would have a point, but the last I checked, we are still a taxpayer funded Constitutional Republic. Our Constitution has been violated way too much in the name of "national security" and to cut off access to public facilities that taxpayers pay for is a bridge too far.

[Buzz Clik]

26. Oh, bullshit. Not everything that is taxpayer funded is available to everyone for any purpose.

That's just silly.

[Dappleganger]

24. If it was available before and not available now, it's a dick move.

[Buzz Clik]

27. True, but Mubarak was far more than just a dick.

[northoftheborder]

2. This guy is......

:evilfrown: :mad: :puke: :crazy: :wtf: :argh: :freak: :dunce: :hurts: :spank: :grr: :thumbsdown:

[Drale]

3. Hopefully he takes another page from Mubarak's book

AND LEAVES THE COUNTRY! He belongs in chains, not in the governors office.

[Blue Owl]

4. Fuck Walker and the Koch he rode in on

this self-styled dickwipe is really starting to get on my last nerve.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Ah so that is FINALLY confirmed

thanks.

I posted the twits as it was happening but the usual crew said it was a rumor.

[kpete]

7. keep

posting the twits,
every bit of info helps,
peace, kpete

[Uncle Joe]

8. So Walker doesn't believe in the First Amendment either, what an asshole!

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[kpete]

11. hey

Uncle Joe
got popcorn?
peace, kpete

[Uncle Joe]

12. Here you go, kpete.

:popcorn:

:popcorn:

One for you, and one for me.

Peace, Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Have you seen this yet?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x556580

[ProSense]

9. Scott Walker should become the face of the Republican Party:

a clueless guy emulating tyrannical dictators in his determination to crush something that's very American.

[cognoscere]

16. Hard for him to be a face when he's already an asshole.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

13. Tell me we are not becoming a third world country n/t

[CLANG]

17. Fucking fascist!

[PatrynXX]

23. be nice to see the senate take up the measure on honoring the Packers

and see what the packers do with it???? Packers stands for I think Meat Packers which is usually a union job.

as for this internet blocking horseshit. Nonesense. Only for porn or sites of violent nature like Stormfront would anyone block a site and defendwisconsin is hardly either. This isn't St Paul Walker... and he's no Skywalker either. and if there's any geeks there I assume they can tweak this thru a proxy.. but who knows..

[gkhouston]

18. and that worked SO well in Eqypt. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

20. It's the Great Wall of Wisconsin! nt

[florida08]

21. so they show porn at this website?

:popcorn: Typical brownshirt..Glad to see his polls are dropping..his balls will shortly

:evilgrin:

[white_wolf]

22. For those who haven't seen the other thread.

Anonymous is providing a way around the block. http://www.scribd.com/doc/49344900/Wisconsin-Proxies

[autorank]

25. k*r You're not even serious

But you are.

Scott Walker is the gift that keeps giving. The public has to stretch to get from Cairo to Madison
but this will do the trick nicely, or at least pose the question seriously.

Thanks for sharing:)

[Beartracks]

30. LOL Love the Imperial Walker photo

I wonder if this guy was out in front of them?




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[The Wielding Truth]

31. Tell Walker that dictators thwart the common rights of their people,

If he wants to be a dictator he will face the current consequences of bad leadership. He will be booted out of power.

[JeffersonChick]

33. Excuse my French, but

What a f***ing d*** :mad:

[upi402]

34. That's 100% All American in my book

Welcome to DU!
:hi:

[deacon]

35. Huge government Walker. n/t