Liberty University blocks newspaper website for reporting on its federal financial aid haul

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Last month, the Lynchburg News & Advance reported that Liberty University, the evangelical private school founded by Jerry Falwell and run by Jerry Falwell Jr., received almost half a billion dollars in federal financial aid money last year. After we pointed out that that was more federal money than NPR received last year, Liberty University apparently blocked access to the News & Advance website for at least one day. Yes, Liberty University is exactly like Communist China.

Liberty University officials at first claimed they were unashamed of receiving so much government cash, but apparently they later thought it embarrassing enough to attempt some clumsy censorship.

Not that Falwell admitted that that's why he blocked it!

“Most of the websites that are blocked have to do with obscene material, material that is inappropriate,” Falwell said. “It just so happened last week The News & Advance was blocked for a day or two. We’re a private organization and we don’t have to give a reason and we’re not.”

Liberty’s decision last week to block The News & Advance website, www.newsadvance.com, was not related to the newspaper’s content, Falwell added.

http://www.salon.com/life/education/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/04/13/liberty_university_censorship

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Other stuff about Liberty University and Thomas Road Baptist Church

These organizations have quietly purchased more and more property in Lynchburg, taking them off the tax rolls, increasing the cost of property tax paid by homeowners and businesses.

[aquamarina]

2. well, there is something obscene about Liberty U

receiving $500,000,000 in Federal financial aid.

[Ikonoklast]

3. Pharisees.

Gotta luv 'em.

[hifiguy]

4. I briefly worked for a guy sending a kid to this diploma mill

He had problems making his payroll - hey it wasn't HIS problem if I got socked with a 10% late fee on my rent because he didn't pay me - but never was late in making tuition payments for his kid at this joke of a school.

If I saw a resume with this piece of shit institution listed on it that resume would hit the shredder so fast it would leave a trail of smoke.

[jwirr]

5. They teach anti-government shit and are embarrassed because

this news makes both their school and their students hypocrites.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. "we don’t have to give a reason and we’re not." Nyah! So there, doo doo head!

asses

[Permanut]

7. Ah, yes, Falwell, that lovely soul who instructed us after 9/11...

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen'."

Golly that sure sounds like something Jesus would say, doesn't it? Oh, and of course Pat Robertson "concurred".

:sarcasm:

I haven't really figured out a way to describe this kind of evil, and they're spreading it through their brainwashing systems, oops, I mean universities. Same with Bob Jones, Oral Roberts and Hillsdale College, among others.