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Censorship of PrisonPlanet.com in England
While media accuses China of blacklisting
sensitive information, censorship is taking place right here at home
Paul Joseph Watson
[1] Prison Planet
Monday, August 4, 2008
While establishment media outlets in the UK spent most of last week
reporting on China’s censorship of political websites in
anticipation of the Olympic games, they ignored the fact that
London’s St. Pancras International, one of the biggest transport
hubs in the west, has already implemented stringent filters that
block users of their wi-fi service from accessing even mildly
political websites.
Traveling through St. Pancras in order to board the Eurostar on my
way to Switzerland, I had an extra couple of hours that I thought I
would fill by checking in on some of my favorite alternative news
websites.
Upon clicking on my favorites menu and selecting [2] prison
planet.com, I was quickly met with a white screen and bold black
text informing me that the website in question was blocked and could
not be accessed.
Was this some kind of a technical error? No, as I was soon to
discover that all websites affiliated with Alex Jones are blocked in
St. Pancras.
Not only that, but even far milder left-leaning commentary websites
like[3] thinkprogress.org were on the same blacklist. In fact, every
non-mainstream news website was inaccessible.
By the way, when I visited Communist China last summer, which
filters every website through a government blacklist, prison
planet.com was not blocked and neither were any other English
language alternative news websites.
Internet censorship of alternative news websites is worse in London
than it is in Communist China. The hypocrisy was painfully evident
as I sat reading newspaper headlines about how evil China is for
censoring anti-government material while London’s biggest transport
network, which recently underwent a £300 million regeneration, did
exactly the same thing with not so much of a peep out of London’s
broadsheets or tabloids.
St. Pancras connects to Kings Cross station and the London
Underground. Perhaps it was our[4] exposé of the fraud of the
official story behind the 2005 London bombings that irked the
censors, yet there is little explanation for also blocking a website
like thinkprogress.org, which doesn’t even cover UK-related issues.
This is another precursor to Internet 2, where only
government-approved websites that have obtained permission by means
of an accepted registration application are allowed to be seen by
web users.
It’s also a stark reminder about how our media has diverted all
attention concerning Internet censorship towards what is happening
in China when the exact same control measures are being put in place
right here at home.
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