blufive

The Bush Campaign seems to have decided that those of us outside the USA are unworthy of access to their official website.

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.georgewbush.com/" on this server.

Words fail. I mean, what is the point? The BBC Story mentions saving bandwidth - but the vast majority of hits (and hence bandwidth) are likely to come from the US anyhow, so locking the rest of us out isn't going to help much.

I suppose they could theoretically be trying to pre-emptively block DDOS attacks or hack attempts, but my (admittedly not great) internet security instincts tell me that this ain't a great way to do that, either.

Besides, how will the loyal citizens of Airstrip One be able to fact-check the Liberal Media without this fine upstanding web resource?

[via frandowdsofa]