Re: Interesting Website

Terry Dugas <president[_at_]naples.net> wrote:
>
> ... the Spanish Government demanded CNN remove a link to a
> Basque separatist web site from the CNN web pages. Spain claimed CNN
> was promoting terrorism. CNN refused, claiming, "more information is
> better than less." Wonder what their response would have been if it
> was a link to a terrorist organization active in the US?

Then Mike Lean <m.lean[_at_]qut.edu.au> asked:
>
> Anyone know any more about the CNN story?

I don't know any more about the story, but this past weekend, in an effort to find more, I started at CNN and followed every link involving Spain and the Basques. The only Basque information links were to inocuous sites. I eventually found, at a site devoted to the Basque culture of the fishing islands of St Pierre and Micquelon, a list of links to other Basque-related sites. There was a warning that some of the sites advocated the use of violence--these were mostly sites related to the Basque separatist movement known as ETA. But here's the interesting part: Every link I clicked on was either "not found" or, in a couple cases "FORBIDDEN" (with a message saying "this client is not authorized to access the selected file" or words to that effect). Bottom line is, I wasn't able to access a single Basque terrorist site, through CNN or any other site. It was not clear to me whether the Spanish government, the US government, or someone else entirely was doing the screening.

Bob Cumbow
<cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> Received on Mon Jul 28 1997 - 16:47:48 GMT