BANNED

Our company employs web filtering software to limit access to certain kinds of content on the internet. I have run up against this restriction on a couple of occasions. These were understandable exclusions-one was a news story at a game related site (RESTRICTED: games), another was a message board on Yahoo! Groups (RESTRICTED: personal or classified ads), and another was the music section of apple.com (RESTRICTED: music). These were all reasonable exclusions since my internet access is supposed to be for work purposes.

Today, I was shocked to find that I can no longer check Megan’s blog or my own from work (RESTRICTED: non-traditional religious, cult or folklore). I have no idea what content on our site elicited such a filter classification. I would really like to know how this happened. If you see anything on my blog or Megan’s blog that you think would fall into that category please post a comment.

So, I suppose this will put a further damper on my already infrequent blogging.

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On a side note, Ryan’s post today covered a litany of subjects he would rather not blog on today. I completely agree with his disgust with the fear related to the U.A.E. owned company that will be overseeing operations at a handful of American ports. Furthermore, I think this has really blown up in the face of the Bush administration and led to a historically low approval rate for the President. 

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5 Responses to BANNED

  1. Mike Godknecht says:

    Maybe your Greeting the Sun post was translated to mean that you worship Apollo the sun god. Who knows. Anyway, that is incredibly restrictive. At LM we can access almost any site. It’s just known that you could be monitored and to use common sense about which sites you go to and how long you surf. I do like to take “smoking breaks” on the internet. Hey, if people can smoke every 2 hours for 5-15mins then I can surf for 5-15mins. Plus frequently during lunch I eat at my desk and surf, its my time I should be able to do what I want. Obviously, offensive sites are frowned upon. But not necessarily banned by our IP. Just know that the next day your badge may not work and when you inquire about it you are promptly spread eagle’d by a guy with a M-16. (and yes…. I have seen this type of thing happen.)

  2. Ryan says:

    I have the opposite problem. There is no filtering (other than microsoft’s) on our computers at church. I’m always afraid I’ll do a google image search for a word like “pancake” so I can make a poster for the upcoming pancake supper or something only to find out that “pancake” is a new word that teenagers use for some explicit act involving three people and syrup. “I promise, I had no idea!!!”

  3. monitorhead says:

    In a surprising turn of events, I am again able to access my blog at work. Not sure what happened yesterday.

    By the way, Ryan, Google allows you to restrict what results are returned (if you click on Preferences) which is particularly useful for image searches. I know I have run across some unexpected results before.

    Mike, I am just like you. I eat my lunch at my computer everyday and take a little browse break.

  4. Ryan says:

    Yeah, I use Google safesearch. Also, that last sentence you wrote about G.W….as much as I want the guy to be great…that last sentence could pretty much sum up every decision or P.R. move by him during term 2.

  5. Emily Tate says:

    Could be posts on Chapel, Abilene Christian University, and the like. People do think that the Churches of Christ is a big cult! 🙂

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