A rare link from Gene:
bluegrassreportBluegrassReport.org Being BLOCKED By State Government
[**Lots of updates throughout the day, so check below frequently**]
I’ve gotten a handful of e-mails this morning already that BluegrassReport.org has apparently been blocked to state computers by the Commonwealth Office of Technology. Readers in three different cabinets have e-mailed to tell me they get a “blocked” message when they try to access the site.
Nothing like a little censorship with your breakfast. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Kentucky.
UPDATE: I’m getting flooded with e-mails and a couple of phone calls from readers in other cabinets — and other elected constitutional offices — that the site has been blocked. But what’s interesting is there’s no problem allowing state workers to access the Republican Party of Kentucky or Fox News or Drudge Report or at least one conservative Kentucky blog. Pathetic.
UPDATE #2: The Bluegrass Institute’s blog is accessible, as are the political blogs run by Mark Hebert and Pat Crowley. Looks like BGR is being targeted. What are they afraid of?
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UPDATE #5: Just finished my first press interview on the matter at 10:08 am. Something tells me this isn’t going to turn out like the Fletcher-Pence-Rudolph administration had hoped…
UPDATE #6: Must be a coincidence that the banning of BGR happens the day after a front-page New York Times story critical of the administration which contained not only a quote from me but also mentioned this site. Coincidence, of course.
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UPDATE #14: Josh Marshall has this update over at Talking Points Memo:
Okay, the scandal-hobbled Gov. Ernie Fletcher started this morning banning the site of one of his biggest critics (who’s successfully moved the scandals now engulfing his administration). That was the bluegrassreport.org. Then they blocked TPMmuckraker.com and now TPM too. Paul Kiel called the state tech folks and at first they denied it. But now they’re not taking any questions.
…and so it continues. It’s smelling of a tremendous censorship cock-up by someone who didn’t understand how bloggers would react…
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