A friend kept replying to links I’d send him saying, “I wish I could see these.”
Finally, I bit — I asked the obvious question that he was pretty much waiting for me to ask, so he could spring the trap.
Well, why not?
“Because I only watch the internet at work, and your site is filtered by our company’s filter.”
Those filters are designed to keep out porn, hatred, hacking and bad guys — how’d we get included?
I didn’t know, so I wrote the company that provided the web filter at his work, WebSense. After a brief exchange of emails, we got sweet relief:
The site you submitted has been reviewed. We have made an update to the following URL(s) in our master database to address this issue:
http://www.amerika.org/ – Advocacy Groups
Categorization updates should be available in the next scheduled publication of the database. A new database is published every business day, five days a week, Pacific Standard Time. You should notice any updates referred to in this message within 72 hours.
So if you’ve been seeing this:
You won’t anymore, I think. Unless they also filter advocacy groups. My guess it’s your system administrator’s prerogative and will be unfiltered in most cases. Thanks to Jeff for catching this one!
In the words of the imortalized Col. Nathan Jessup — “You can’t handle the truth.”
You think that’s over doing it?
Ever heard of something called a Watch Dog? Some of these programs block ANUS, CORRUPT, and AMERIKA
Norton Antivirus blocks ANUS because of occult content. Really? I had no idea the anus is occult, perhaps we should block medical studies websites as well.
Just another day brought to you by the thought police. Reminds me of the filn Demolition Man, even though it was rubbish
Demolition Man is full of Huxley references, and some of the hammiest acting I’ve ever seen. I think they had a lot of fun making that movie.
We should take the occult comment as an encouragement! In the meantime, I’ll look up “Watch Dog”