STILL CAN'T GET ON TO AL JAZEERA

Try it yourself: http://english.aljazeera.net, or http://www.aljazeera.net. What's the problem here? There has been a concerted effort to keep this web site offline (see my earlier post here, with links); if it's private individuals acting on their own capacity, it's regrettable but not surprising. Any bets on whether or not this is partly a government hacking effort? I wonder. . .

NOTE: Read the USA Today article here, the ZDNet article here, and the Daily Times (Pakistan) article here.

People who think that they're doing anyone a service by going after news web sites are just plain ridiculous. And counterproductive. Imagine if the Fox News website were down for a week and replaced by graphics written in arabic script and, say, the flag of the Taliban regime. What good would that do anyone, except to rankle a bunch of people who are already rankled?

UPDATE (3:00p.m.): The arabic page is up and running at al jazeera, but not the english page.