Pen-Elayne on the Web

Silencing More Voices

As Teresa has said, "I deeply resent how this Administration makes me feel like a conspiracy nutbar theorist," but I have to wonder if this story via Professor Juan Cole's blog about the gutting of Voice of America isn't somehow related to the item I mentioned a couple days ago about the US authorities' new rules for renewing foreign journalists' visas. I dunno, it's like these efforts to stifle what gets out about our country to the rest of the world seem to be coordinated or something.

On an utterly unrelated note, since this is simple concern rather than paranoia, does anyone know what's happened to Lean Left? I try to get to the blog and I'm presented with a page from "selene.hmdnsgroup.com" saying "This Account Has Been Disabled - Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." Weird.