Silencing al-Jazeera

It seems the al-Jazeera web site has been unaccessible over the last couple of days. It had been slow to begin with and getting slashdotted couldn't have helped. Still, there is more to it than their slow server. Their address and site have been hacked repeatedly. For most of the day, their domain name would not resolve. Earlier this morning, this page appeared on their site. Right now it's resolving to 127.0.0.1. I guess freedom of press and all that stuff doesn't apply when it comes to "them".

BTW, I found the civilian casualties pictures to which I was refering in my previous entry posted on this site (warning - they are very graphic).