June 22, 2006
About the dumbest political technology move I’ve seen in weeks: the decision by the Republican governor of Kentucky to block access by state employees to the blog of a leading critic of his, the Bluegrass Report. The net views censorship as a bug and routes around it, dummy! Other blogs picked up the story–and in turn they’ve been blocked!
Hello, Governor Fletcher? If this sort of thing doesn’t work in China, what makes you think it will work here?