Expats blocked from official Bush website
27 October 2004.
This story points out that “American expats are unable to visit the official website of US President George W. Bush.”
It notes a similar block on an official government web site:
The block follows a similar ban on some overseas visitors to a US government-run expat voting information site.
In October it was revealed the Pentagon had blocked access to its voter information site (www.fvap.gov) by some foreign Internet Service Providers, including Wanadoo in France and Telefonica in Spain.
The block was removed following uproar among voter registration advocates. The US Defense Department at first said the block was placed on Pentagon websites to prevent attacks from hackers, but later said the barricade on the voter registration site had been left on inadvertently.
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