I have not been able to access
http://www.georgewbush.com all week long. I thought it was a fluke at first, but after a few days began to have a suspicion that it was blocking my foreign IP.
I am accessing the web via DSL in Baja Mexico and have a clearly identifiable IP as Mexican origin, as Google routes me to a Latin American version, CNN goes to International Edition and I get a continual stream of ads in spanish on websites I visit.
All along, I figured George's reelection site maybe had problems, a DOS attack or something. Today I decided to log into my web server in Colorado and found it could access George's site just fine.
Why in the hell would the Bush campaign BLOCK the world outside of the US from seeing his information? Last week I was in there fine. This week, I get nothing but a timeout when I try to access his site. What gives?
Is he blocking ALL non-US viewers from the site, or just Mexico? There are lots of Republicans down in these parts that he could be alienating with this action (which is fine by me), but it really just looks suspicious in my view.
Maybe he's blocking people from applying that "global test"...
Update [2004-10-14 15:5:12 by muji]: So far Costa Rica and Brazil are also blocked. UK and Canada are not. So it looks like a complete block of Latin American viewers so far.