Mar 4, 2009
UK Denied Access To Globe Magazine “Obama Gay Scandal” Story?
UPDATE! It is March 20th 2009, and still the corporate information embargo goes on! Please spread the word! Bizarrely, even the popular alternative press are ignoring this story!?
UPDATE: I’ve had confirmations of no availability in Portugal, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. And still nobody seems to be discussing this. Thanks enormously to those who have contacted me thus far. This story isn’t sinking (the apparent global censorship of internet media outside the US), it has now officially sunk. The implications of the apparent ignorance of this enormous stonewall are disturbing.
Readers from the UK, please take a few seconds to check this google search link and then try clicking on the globemagazine.com links at the top of the page. I get nothing. It’s been like this since the 28th of February, now.
The google abstract reads “25 Feb 2009 … Rumor has it that some of Globe Magazine’s internet servers had been shut down since the “Obama Gay Scandal” issue was published: I hope …”
… But check these links or try to get www.globemagazine.com at all.
Thinking this was some bizarre behaviour of my browsers cache, I checked it on Opera, IE (but it crashed…), and eventually walked over the road to a local internet cafe to check it there: still nothing. The stories bring about a 404 page not found error and the globemagazine home page states “page unavailable/under construction”. This seems to be strangely lax behaviour from a major American media corporation.
Please note: this is a UK ONLY PROBLEM AS FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT.
Is this article being contained from the world wide web? Or is there a mundane, simple explanation to this strange coincidence?
My apologies to readers I may have mislead with my previous article: I thought, initially, that it was a world wide problem. I’m personally unaware of situations where a domain would be available to one country but not to others… Can anyone explain?
cant reach it from new zealand whats going on barry lying cheating murdering son of a bitch
cant reach it from new zealand whats going on barry lying cheating murdering son of a bitch
Anyone forgotten that the Globe routinely fabricates it’s ‘stop press’ stories?
Where’s the line between free speech and slander?
Is it morally acceptable to block slander from the internet?
Anyone forgotten that the Globe routinely fabricates it’s ‘stop press’ stories?
Where’s the line between free speech and slander?
Is it morally acceptable to block slander from the internet?
Both the Globe and National Enquirer online feeds in the U.K have been down for over a year stating page under construction!! Yeah?! It takes that long?! We used to be able to access this in the U.K but obviously for whatever technical reason we can’t!! Have to say as these are both tabloid scandal mags anyone who assumes everything written in them is the truth needs their heads looking at!! Still even the everyday newspapers sensationalise stories for mega impact these days – all in all you just can’t believe everything written in the media or even broadcast, that doesn’t mean the press in any form should be censored people should still have the right to make up their own minds!!
Since a lot of U.S films, t.v progs etc are censored to sometimes ridiculous lengths anyway for distribution in their own country, but allowed full access for the U.K and other countries you have to wonder just how free freedom of speech is in the U.S!! Since the magazines are still freely available from all outlets in the U.K though I somehow doubt it’s a more sinister plot to stop the rest of the world reading these stories – true or otherwise!! You just have to pay your money and read a magazine instead of logging onto the web!
No access from Ireland, for many months, for
http://www.globemagazine.com, as well as
http://www.nationalenquirer.com:
Page unavailable/under construction
Not reachable from the netherlands either!!!
the magazine is not available in Spain either.