AOL Time-Warner Censors Alex Jones Websites

Nationwide blackout a clear attempt to shut down free speech Time Warner's ISP, Road Runner, has blocked access to all of Alex Jones' flagship websites across the entire United States.
We were first alerted to this problem early this morning when several locals in Austin reported that they were unable to access Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com or Prison Planet.tv.

Austin Time Warner had previously shut down access to our websites on a whim, claiming they were 'hate material' but in all cases had quickly restored them after receiving complaints.

As of this posting, goping through local Roadrunner I cannot access any of the Alex Jones web sites.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/


REGARDLESS IF WE BELIEVE IN THE SITE OR NOT, WE BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT TO POST IT ON THE WEB TO BE VIEWED, THIS IS MADNESS AND NEEDS TO STOP NOW BEFORE WE ARE LIKE CHINA. I LIVE IN HOUSTON ON WARNER AND CANNOT VIEW THE SITE EITHER...

emails from http://www.meria.net/

meria is the greatest.....everybody should be listening to Meria

www.meria.net

Bama

tonight when listening to Webster Tarplay at the very beginning of the show.
very interesting

So it's a couple of corporate big boys feuding -- and pissing on their customers.

There is NOTHING to see here.

Move along. Now.

And remember, Big BushCo Loves You.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4983440

There's a link to a CNET article there.

I posted a reply here about this already, but since it's far down the list of replies, I'm adding another reply here, closer to the original post, in the hope people will see it before they assume this is censorship.

I posted about this in LBN, too, since it's affecting so many people.

my viewing on the internet. If Alex Jones is so off the chart and he is always spreading propaganda, what bothers this administration about him? Makes me think maybe he has been telling the truth and they want to shut him up....

Ever seen that video he has of the rituals of that summer camp for ridiculously rich and influential men? You can't believe grown up adults never really made it past 12 under the skin.

come. MR Danger as Dictator and the Christian Taliban banning everything from lap dances to porn to condoms. What a wonderful next two and a half years we have in front of us.

Fascists.

Anybody recognize items 6 and 11 of the 14 characteristics of fascism here?

6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes’ excesses.

11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts. Intellectuals and the inherent freedom of ideas and expression associated with them were anathema to these regimes. Intellectual and academic freedom were considered subversive to national security and the patriotic ideal. Universities were tightly controlled; politically unreliable faculty harassed or eliminated. Unorthodox ideas or expressions of dissent were strongly attacked, silenced, or crushed. To these regimes, art and literature should serve the national interest or they had no right to exist.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2

What happens one day if we come to DU and it is not there? Anyone ever thought about that?

that gets enough spam complaints. It's "customer service." :eyes:

It is excellent news....

so what other "hate" sites does Time Warner block?

Hey,I'm no fan of the guy,but WTF? What next, Internet 2?:tinfoilhat:

Edit: Entire Post.

Looks like they are making changes @ those sites. Recent DNS records indicate changes as recently as an hour ago. These include new name servers and a generic lycos search page when hitting their site (from non-RR accounts). Anyway, not sure this is just an RR thing, looks like they are trying to change host providers or something and are not complete in the move as yet... just a guess.

Has anyone else been successful in seeing the site today ?


MZr7

agree with what he says, he has the right to say and to post it on a free internet. The audacity of AOL/Warner to decide what we should see makes me see red....

sites, AOL certainly shouldn't ban them! Time to cancel (MUCH overdue) my membership....

and ive got RR in Cincinnati.

or maybe its Earthlink... cant remember. we switch everytime the half price period ends to get the cheaper prices.

what site are you at?

http://www.apj.us (American Politics Journal)
http://www.bartcop.com (Bartcop)
http://www.eff.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

They seem to be dead on RoadRunner but live on AOL (talk about irony)

http://www.prisonplanet.com

and all the ones listed by johnfunk

Add to the list Blogger (I run a blog, so this is something I use) and Photobucket. Tried Prison Planet and no dice. Even tried ProBoards (I run a sports message board) and it was very slow loading.

Who's running the internet now? Michael Brown?

I can access eff.org but the other two I could not access...

http://www.apj.us (American Politics Journal) RR: NO, AOL 9.0 through my RR broadband: YES
http://www.bartcop.com (Bartcop) RR: NO, AOL 9.0 through my RR broadband: YES
http://www.eff.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation) RR: YES, AOL 9.0 through my RR broadband: YES
http://www.prisonplanet.com (Prison Planet / Alex Jones) RR: NO, AOL 9.0 through my RR broadband: YES
http://www.photobucket.com (PhotoBucket) RR: NO, AOL 9.0 through my RR broadband: NO

But via RR I got the same results as you.

Photobucket is weird.

I'm starting to get really ticked.

I can no longer access the prisonplanet URL's and the infowars URL is iffy at best. I wrote an email to Alex to let him know.

but he deserves to be heard like everyone else.

Censorship DOES exist in America :(

"Specified Server Could Not be Found"

Olaf

And I'm glad! They dumped the newsgroups, too. You have to go through some other site. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL goes under one day, since they are just getting worse & worse.

Tammy

Not sure what the problem is with everyone else but I got www.prisonplanet.com and www.infowars.com through my two servers. I don't think they would dare censor Alex.

are you able to access www.photobucket.com?

dp

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2137546

dp

ok i want to throw a rock at someone - the don't filter stormfront.org but they filter infowars?

But not Photobucket?WTF?

Why the hell does anyone use AOL. Just because it came with your computer? Just because you get a CD in the mail?
Why the hell does anyone use AOL oh wait I already said that.

Are they still a worthless piece of shit?

RR's not blocking Alex Jones...

Level 3 Breaks Public Peering

using AOL.

...from someone who doesn't care to support his advertising revenue.

I normally browse via www.idzap.com (its like anonymizer.com) and I can get to prisonplanet.com via idzap, but not directly via Comcast. Comcast isn't even TimeWarner but they are still just as big a-holes.

So it's a couple of corporate big boys feuding -- and pissing on their customers.

and had a runaround with my provider about spyware which is their new excuse for everything. It all works now because I clicked the "detect network settings" link on the page cannot be displayed screen and suddenly everything started working.

They're now speculating that it had something to do with my router but who knows. Anyhow, try that and see if it helps.

No more access to aljeezera, michael moore.com, david icke,

the daily show, kitco....

And you're right, this is SERIOUS. If websites like that god hates fags crap is allowed, I don't know why they would block this one.

can anyone confirm?

BTW - I don't have AOL but I do have Road Runner!

perhaps it is regional?

I believe Alex had to change his servers. Somebody did a whois after this post and said there was some activity on his account like he switched his DNS servers...

when I clicked to link to info within the site, AOL immediately shutdown. None f the usual messages of Lost Connection, Do A Restart, Reconnect or Sign Off...just blank with only the AOL tool bar inactivted, and the URL to Jones' site in the browser, but grayed (inavctive). Weird.

So, have brought the http://www.infowars.com/ site back up and am going in to see if this happens again.

on edit:
No problems now. Went to the Jones' site out of curiousity...sure seems Art Bell-ish

Alex Jones and CTs...they always go hand-in-hand.