Tuesday, 29th August 2006

NYT censoring UK readers

Oooer. Looks like the New York Times have blocked UK readers from accessing the article at www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/europe/28plot.html - which strikes me as a rather silly thing to do, because as soon as people read the full article at media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1860584,00.html I'm sure people will become intrigued and of course it will take off like wildfire and everyone around the internet will be emailing it to everyone. After all it doesn't take much to either access the site from a non UK IP address, or simply get a friend overseas to email it to you.

With all controversial stories, I'd have said the best way of keeping it quiet is exactly that - don't mention it, and keep quiet. As soon as you say "this is banned" or "you can't view this" you can guarantee that curiosity will get the better of people, and before you know it, the internet will be flooded with mirror copies.

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