Tuesday, October 26, 2004
This is very odd.
I have spent the last two weeks making sure this is actually happening - and it is. I don't know who is doing it, but they must have a lot of free time.
In our graduate student lounge there are around half a dozen computers for us to use. I surf the net and check my e-mail. I also visit many, many political websites. Some liberal, some conservative. I like to see what all sides of the issues are saying, and with the election, I must admit I am a bit addicted to election news.
However, I started noticing something odd. The conservative (or even semi-conservative) web sites I visit have been disappearing from the computers. Someone is going through and removing them as bookmarks, from the history on the Internet Explorer, AND from the data cache.
The liberal websites I visit are not touched. In other words, I may visit National Review online, Instapundit, Opinion Journal and Power Line in the morning, and if I check on the same computer later in the afternoon - there is no record of me having ever visited those web pages. Yet if I visited the Kerry/Edwards campaign website, or the New Republic at the same time - those web sites still show up in the history.
Someone is deliberately erasing conservative websites from the memory of the computers in the graduate student lounge. Are they afraid some impressionable grad student might accidentally be exposed to conservative viewpoints?
I have spent the last two weeks making sure this is actually happening - and it is. I don't know who is doing it, but they must have a lot of free time.
In our graduate student lounge there are around half a dozen computers for us to use. I surf the net and check my e-mail. I also visit many, many political websites. Some liberal, some conservative. I like to see what all sides of the issues are saying, and with the election, I must admit I am a bit addicted to election news.
However, I started noticing something odd. The conservative (or even semi-conservative) web sites I visit have been disappearing from the computers. Someone is going through and removing them as bookmarks, from the history on the Internet Explorer, AND from the data cache.
The liberal websites I visit are not touched. In other words, I may visit National Review online, Instapundit, Opinion Journal and Power Line in the morning, and if I check on the same computer later in the afternoon - there is no record of me having ever visited those web pages. Yet if I visited the Kerry/Edwards campaign website, or the New Republic at the same time - those web sites still show up in the history.
Someone is deliberately erasing conservative websites from the memory of the computers in the graduate student lounge. Are they afraid some impressionable grad student might accidentally be exposed to conservative viewpoints?
