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Jun20
Boing Boing Reports LA Times Newsroom Censorship
Why, exactly, would a newsroom censor the internet?  Apparently the LA Times is doing just that.  Peacefire, an anti-censorware website is one of the blacklisted sites.   Odder still is that:
"...web software does block access to certain offensive websites for the whole company, not just the newsroom, and that Playboy.com is allowed—but Peacefire.org is indeed blocked as a security measure.".
As if my faith in mainstream media wasn't shaky enough.

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