This forum was blocked

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:30 am

I just got back from a 2 day conference. I don't have a laptop so I went on one of the computers in the lobby to find that THIS forum was blocked because of sexual content, etc, blah, blah, blah....

really? hmmmm
But I could go on MySpace and Facebook and Yahoo and such.
I just fond that interesting- and frustrating!

Maggy · Post by **Maggy** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:16 am

sea-nile wrote:I just got back from a 2 day conference. I don't have a laptop so I went on one of the computers in the lobby to find that THIS forum was blocked because of sexual content, etc, blah, blah, blah.... really? hmmmm
But I could go on MySpace and Facebook and Yahoo and such.
I just fond that interesting- and frustrating!

You have every reason to be upset and you should never go back to that place again, conference or not

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:45 am

...what Maggy said...

Post by **Anthony** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:47 am

I have heard of this happening a couple of times - I think the reason may be sloppy administration of a firewall - i.e. blocking a wide range of IPs that somehow include ours... anyway I am hoping that is the case!

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:51 am

funny. I am able to get to it on my work computer and we have pretty strict firewall rules.

Post by **Anthony** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:58 am

But probably a good sys admin.

ifloat · Post by **ifloat** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:59 am

The words "coconut bra" set off screeching alarms on smut censors in many civilized societies.

Joshie · Post by **Joshie** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:45 pm

jayseadee · Post by **jayseadee** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:20 pm

Easily remedied with an iPhone

Lulu76 · Post by **Lulu76** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:37 am

I just want to know where this blocked sexual content is...

All I can find is some "food porn" and too many references to drinking!

canucknyc · Post by **canucknyc** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:42 am

Could it be the word "virgin" in the address?

Lulu76 · Post by **Lulu76** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:18 pm

Yes, that's probably it.

I can just see Beverly's new tourism slogan now:

"Virgin Islands...like Fantasy Island, only different."

RickG · Post by **RickG** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:12 pm

Hot... virgin... donkey... coconuts... in Love City.

Cheers, RickG

Post by **Anthony** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:23 pm

canucknyc wrote:Could it be the word "virgin" in the address?

Seriously that could be it and that was what I meant by sloppy system administration. The person setting up the firewall may have added domains to block and used very broad keywords, like "virgin"...

LysaC · Post by **LysaC** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:38 pm

a few years back, i was serching for an image from "emmett otter's jugbanb christmas" (a muppet christmas movie) and my employer had it blocked for porn!!! i assume it was the "jug" in jugband. crazy stuff.

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