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Will iSteve.com (Or VDARE.com) Be Available On Mayor Villaraigosa’s Municipal Free Wi-fi?

Posted By Steve Sailer On 18 August 2007 @ 12:43 In General | Comments Disabled

The mayor of Los Angeles, an energetic fellow, has proposed that the city provide free high-speed wireless Internet connections to every Los Angeleno. Sounds great! I could dump my expensive cable modem connection … assuming Mayor Villaraigosa would allow me to look at my own website.

Which is a big If. [1] Colby Cosh recently pointed out that [2] Saskatchewan’s new municipal Wi-Fi networks ban citizens from visiting “sites associated with pornography or hate groups.” One of the [3] banes of my career is dealing with [4] private censor companies that [5] ban iSteve.com, such as the one that explained “The main goal of[6] SiteCoach is to filter pornographic content and content glorifying violence, as well as right-wing and other so-called forbidden content that ‘hits below the belt’.” Who knows what Mayor Tony’s taxpayer-paid service will allow? Free Speech and Free Wi-Fi are antonyms.

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URLs in this post:
[1] Colby Cosh recently pointed out : http://www.colbycosh.com/mt/2007/07/just_keep_going_west_youre_20.html
[2] Saskatchewan’s: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglo
beandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20070728.WIFI28%2FTPStory%2FNational&ord=24900328&br
and=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

[3] banes : http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/04/25/instapundit-on-censorware/
[4] private censor companies: http://www.vdare.com/fulford/061011_fulford_file.htm
[5] ban iSteve.com: http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/03/05/istevecom-banned-by-kmart/
[6] SiteCoach: http://web.archive.org/web/20030620073003/http://www.sitekiosk.com/hilfe/sitecoach/index.htm