I'll log in from work and check now

Where did everybody go?

Don't they have anything better to do?

Not again. Ay Caramba.

re: #4 zombie

Not again. Ay Caramba.

Is your site blocked?

It's gotta be those insensitive Opus cartoons!

Can't get you from AT&T, but am able to get Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, and others. :-|

Hilariously enough, the web filter that my college uses blocks DKos for "Profanity"

I'm for once loving the internet filter.

Can still get LGF just fine (obviously)

I guess I've been lucky there; nothing has been blocked in my ISP...

. Their puny block will be no match for Charles' lizardoid cyberpowers.

Works fine from Sprint, but I did not say that

And it works fine from home as well...

This is a test to see if same login can be used from separate computers on different networks...

Atlas is also having her own battle with blog censorship, you can read about it here.
Atlas Readers Fight Atlas Ban

re: #9 ParanoidPyro

Hilariously enough, the web filter that my college uses blocks DKos for "Profanity"

The company I just retired from blocked DKos and Huffpo for the same reason.

DD

No problems with AT&T

I thought people worked at work - that's why they call it work. What is all the surfing the net and blogging?

I would like a job at one of these places. Anybody know of any openings?

I'm starting AT&T/Yahoo next week. If I can't get you, I will cancel and tell them why.

A present to start the school year?

Charles - in the Admiral's club at San Francisco airport, you cannot get into LGF - it is a pornographic site!

I have complained but it doesn't change

re: #21 kiwiviv

Charles - in the Admiral's club at San Francisco airport, you cannot get into LGF - it is a pornographic site!

I blame Larry Craig.

re: #21 kiwiviv

Charles - in the Admiral's club at San Francisco airport, you cannot get into LGF - it is a pornographic site!

I have complained but it doesn't change

I am in the Japan Airlines lounge right now - At Fan Francisco Airport - all is well in LizardLand. I can access LGF nicely.

They block us because we are evil.

JWM

re: #22 Dar ul Harb

re: #21 kiwiviv

Charles - in the Admiral's club at San Francisco airport, you cannot get into LGF - it is a pornographic site!

I blame Larry Craig.

VERY Good one! Wide stances are common around here!

re: #24 JWM

They block us because we are call evil out by its name.

There, fixed that for ya!

I'm in from my work computer and they use websense.

Why do they hate lizards?

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Agreed, she's got to much stuff, takes forever to load.

re: #17 yah

I thought people worked at work - that's why they call it work. What is all the surfing the net and blogging?

Americans are the hardest working folks in the world.

GENEVA - American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year.

They also get more done per hour than everyone but the Norwegians, according to a U.N. report released Monday, which said the United States "leads the world in labor productivity."

The average U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, followed by Luxembourg at $55,641, Belgium at $55,235 and France at $54,609.

SNIP

By the way, from the last incident I learned that the block may take a little while to reach all their subscribers -- it depends on when the subscriber updates the WebSense database.

re: #5 newsjunkie_ky

re: #4 zombie

Not again. Ay Caramba.

Is your site blocked?

I have no clue. I don't know how to keep track of such things. I've been blocked in the past by various of these filter companies. I just don't have the techno-sophistication to deal with it.

re: #26 Macker

re: #24 JWM

They block us because we are call evil out by its name.

There, fixed that for ya!

AWW-
I was just revelling in the sheer joy of misperceived wickedness. Sometimes it's fun when the right people hate you!
;)

JWM

just checked "some other sites" websense is still blocking away, but not LGF. And BTW last time it blocked LGF I was blocked out from here for a couple of days.

re: #31 Charles

That could explain why I am still able to acess it.

re: #22 Dar ul Harb

re: #21 kiwiviv

Charles - in the Admiral's club at San Francisco airport, you cannot get into LGF - it is a pornographic site!

I blame Larry Craig.

I blame his link to my Breasts Not Bombs report. That got zombietime banned at most corporations.

On the other hand, it gets me more day-to-day visitors (even to this day) than any other report I've ever done!

re: #31 Charles

By the way, from the last incident I learned that the block may take a little while to reach all their subscribers -- it depends on when the subscriber updates the WebSense database.

Where I work the security folks do their own list -- they apply a consistent policy. So I can't get to liveleak, I can't get to Jerry Pournelle (it must be a personal blog because it uses a person's name) I can get to political blogs, like here, dkos etc.

Working from home. Cosmo, Inc. gets LGF 24/7/365.

/snickering all the way

re: #30 MandyManners

That's great news! I'll take the job for the $63,885 - but I want DSL, with no blocking, and a corner office please.

re: #39 yah

re: #30 MandyManners

That's great news! I'll take the job for the $63,885 - but I want DSL, with no blocking, and a corner office please.

Well...you can't just say,"I'll take the $64K job over there in that corner office with no internet blocking," and expect to actually get it...unless someone is actually offering it to you. Then again, if no one is offering you the job you want you could go out and create it for yourself. It's a little thing called initiative.

On the other hand, it's easier to just grouse about what a great deal everyone else has.

re: #36 zombie

I blame his link to my Breasts Not Bombs report. That got zombietime banned at most corporations.

haha if they think that is porn...their standards aren't very high.

Citigroup uses Websense and blocked LGF Friday - as a new hatchling, Friday was the first time I tried to login from work. The reason the content is prohibited or inappropriate is not described.

Did the pseudo "rev" help flag anti-Jihad sites as hate speech?

re: #41 Highrise

re: #36 zombie

I blame his link to my Breasts Not Bombs report. That got zombietime banned at most corporations.

haha if they think that is porn...their standards aren't very high.

Watching bowel surgery is more exciting and has a better chance of making a coherent political point.

re: #41 Highrise

re: #36 zombie

I blame his link to my Breasts Not Bombs report. That got zombietime banned at most corporations.

haha if they think that is porn...their standards aren't very high.

Pornography? I thought that was some sort of scenes from a horror movie, or maybe sci-fi. I still remember the giant topless lesbian (and wish I could forget it -- thanks a lot, Zombie...)

re: #41 Highrise

That isn't porn, that should be in the same category as somethingawful.com

God, I hope not. You and Insy are about the only sites I can access during the day. I'm going to log onto the company VPN and check.
BRB.

No blocky here, Thank G_d.

OT...

hey! does anybody have or know where to find figures on how much our government spends on welfare, social programs, school lunch programs, AFDC, etc. per year?

I should think WebSense would have put LGF in a third category by now: don't block it, but do tattle to the boss. Send the boss a report containing all of the "questionable" (read: politically incorrect) web sites that an employee has visited, but that WebSense can't block without looking like fascists.

Employees can't complain about what they don't know about, right?

Censoring the good guys doesn't make any sense.

Actually, I could access LGF just fine while in Dubai.

LGF, Jihad Watch, and a few others were off the filter for about three weeks, but about six weeks ago, they were being filtered for "Opinions: Political", but we can still get Michelle Malkin, WND, Ann Coulter, Rush, Beck and a few other sites.

That's at work, that is...

Just for giggles.
A Big Victory – not blocked (Tea, Michelle!)
A Day in the Life of an Ambulance Driver – not blocked (Yea,AD!)
Ace of Spades – blocked (Political Organizations)
Asymmetrical Information – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Atomic Nerds – not blocked (Yea, LabRat!)
Bad Dogs and Such – not blocked (Yea, Abby)
Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper – not blocked
Chromed Curses – not blocked
Cold Fury - blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Dean’s World - blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Diary of a Food Whore – blocked (Society and Lifestyles)
Dooce – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Eject!Eject!Eject!- blocked (Society and Lifestyles)
Everyday Stranger – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Horseshoes and Handgrenades – (Hey that’s me!) not blocked (Yea, me!)
Hugh Hewitt – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Ilyka Damen – not blocked, but she quit so no biggie.
IMAO – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Instapundit – not blocked
Iraq the Model – not blocked
Just Another Pretty Farce – not blocked but only loads text(weird)
Just Peachy – not blocked (Yea, Babs!)
LGF – not blocked!
Lileks – blocked (Entertainment)
Michelle Malkin – not blocked
Neo-Neocon – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Patterico – not blocked
Power Line – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Quote the Raven – not blocked (Yea, Svin!)
Rachel Lucas – blocked :( (Message Boards and Forums)
Sand in the Gears – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Shoot the Moose – not blocked but you can’t view content, must be a Wordpress thang.
The Anchoress – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
The Munchkin Wrangler – not blocked (Yea, Marko!)
The Shape of Days – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
The Truth Laid Bear – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Victory Soap – not blocked (Yea, Andrea!)
View from the Porch – blocked (Social Networking and Person Sites) Not true! Tam’s one of the most anti-social bloggers I read.
Villainous Company – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
Violent Acres – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
VodkaPundit – blocked (Message Boards and Forums)
WaiterRant – blocked (Entertainment)

Do you see a pattern here?

Yeah, me neither.

PIYF
"Yea, Michelle"

My work blocks "social networking" sites but doesn't block LGF or other blogs. Maybe they haven't figured out they're "social networking" sites yet. They block places like myspace and youtube.

I once got blocked on the work comp for "porn" when I clicked on a MSM story that included "teen" in the link.

So Sense? blocked

/oiy veh

Time again for Maddox on Websense.

Another one in the victory column for "Unthinking Computer Filters" in their never-ending battle with "Thinking Machines" (that's us).

Blocked by Websense for:
"Racism and Hate"

re: #32 zombie

re: #5 newsjunkie_ky

re: #4 zombie

Not again. Ay Caramba.

Is your site blocked?

I have no clue. I don't know how to keep track of such things. I've been blocked in the past by various of these filter companies. I just don't have the techno-sophistication to deal with it.

You're blocked at my place of employment--it's the photo/video thing, I think. I could petition to have it reversed (worked for Day by Day), but I'm probably the only one in the district who goes to Zombietime, so why bother?!

No problem from my official U.S. Government office Websense controlled connection. LGF is received loud and clear. Monday evening on East Coast.

Last week I know that everything was still okay with General Motors. On the plus side, they had been blocking DailyKos.

Fort Rucker AL, Blocks LGF. The message just says that blogs are forbidden.

Blocked for 'racism and hate'?

What 'race' are the thugs and terrorists?
What 'race' are the head-hacking Islamists of Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia?

In a manner of speaking, they're part of the human race...

...technically speaking.

#66
"blogs are forbidden"
Sounds like a tag line to me.

My websense blocked LGF once in the past but not today.

Charles,

For my $.02, Astaro also blocks LGF (and Michelle's) for content (hate (at one time) but now it's categorize as "personal webpage")

I’ve just put up a bunch of new info about blog censorship, especially with regard to Websense.

Here’s a category link that I’ve set up, to provide rolling updates on this topic:

[Link: 1389blog.com...]

Websense has a site lookup tool at [Link: www.websense.com...] - unfortunately, it requires registration, a policy which is highly objectionable in itself. So much for accountability to the public!

Contact info for Websense:

Websense Corporate Headquarters
Gene Hodges, CEO
Douglas C. Wride, President and CFO
10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
San Diego, California 92121 USA
Tel: +1 800.723.1166 or +1 858.320.8000
Fax: +1 858.458.2950

Websense Email Form (such as it is): [Link: www.websense.com...]

(Note: Websense does not accept the email form if sender's email address is on a web-based server, such as Yahoo. If that's a problem, then write or call them up and complain!)

Investor relations:
Kate Patterson, VP of Investor Relations
Tel: 877-273-7379 or 858-320-8072
Fax: 858-458-2959
Email: kpatterson@websense.com

Here's what I sent them, using their email form:

It has come to my attention that Websense is blocking the well-respected counterterrorist/antijihadist site, Little Green Footballs ([Link: littlegreenfootballs.com)....]

I have also noted that Websense requires registration in order to use the Site Lookup Tool. This is just plain wrong! It discourages public accountability by invading people's privacy in order to get the information about whether a site they want to access may be misclassified.

Little Green Footballs has been around for a long time. Charles Johnson, who runs the site, does not post or allow to be posted any bigoted or otherwise inappropriate content. It contains nothing that would make it objectionable even for the K-12 environment. Websense should classify it accordingly.

Sites such as Little Green Footballs also contain valuable security information that everybody should know, and that are useful in the corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government environments. In fact, I believe that anybody working at a government site, including state and local governments, as well as schools, should be REQUIRED to view counterterrorist and other security-related sites on a regular basis, because protecting everyone is part of their job!

Because they don't accept web-based email, I had to give them a different email address that I would much rather not have used.

1389

re: #67 carridine

Websense was down for two days. Knowing this my company decided to ambush our computers while we were off. They have really strict policies regarding web use. As I was being briefed as to why I was being terminated, two visited sites were mentioned, "Jihadi Watch" and "LGF". Normally these sites are blocked for "Racism and Hate".
By the way, I wasn't the only one to get canned that day.

re: #55 Daddyquatro

Yes, they've adopted a few default site settings from Websense, and they've blocked others that their employees abuse priveleges on.

#73 cbinflux,
Sorry, does not compute.
LGF, Instapundit, and Malkin: Not blocked.
Cold Fury, IMAO, and Lileks: Blocked.
No dis to Mike, Frank J. or James but who's likely to get the most time-wasters come to visit?

We have Websense on our network (and I work for one of the categories of employers listed above) and it's not blocking LGF. That makes me think it's a local thing.

I am reading this from work behind a websense server and there is no blockage here. :-)

re: #32 zombie

re: #5 newsjunkie_ky

re: #4 zombie

Not again. Ay Caramba.

Is your site blocked?

I have no clue. I don't know how to keep track of such things. I've been blocked in the past by various of these filter companies. I just don't have the techno-sophistication to deal with it.

But you take such nice photos. Thanks

No issues - but USG does block all Youtube posts....any chance to post actual video vice just links?

My company utilizes a fairly restrictive version of WebSense and, well, here I am. I know that companies can also add websites to the WebSense list, so if the category says "-Blocked" then it's a company specific ban.

"Pornography? I thought that was some sort of scenes from a horror movie, or maybe sci-fi. I still remember the giant topless lesbian (and wish I could forget it -- thanks a lot, Zombie...)"

The one that might give me nightmares someday is the guy with huge breasts and chin pubes