I just found out that not are games blocked, but so are gaming forums and even websites that report news about games.
I work for a cybersecurity company, so pretty restricted.
No access to personal e-mail, no access to any service that syncs or uploads data (no DropBox for example), and we also run a huge, ever expanding blacklist. Because of what we do, we are very careful about any website that has had any history of being a conduit for malicious activity. We are one of the “guardians of the internet” so we can’t allow ourselves to be breached.
I work at a university.
There are no restrictions on my internet usage. The principle of research and open inquiry trumps concerns about inappropriate material. Still, i exercise basic human decency and consideration. My office is door is generally open so that students and colleagues can see me, and i avoid browsing stuff at work that might give offense to others, especially in terms of images.
I’m not sure what the filter setting is, but I can’t look up song lyrics.
Mine are so restrictive I can’t even hum.
Man. That’s restrictive.
We’re only supposed to use the internet for work related stuff. I’ve never tested the limits of our firewalls. Wikipedia and local restaurant sites work just fine. Now when I worked customer service for a credit card company part of my job involved using the internet to help customers identify suspicious charges on their credit, and yes our internet was unfiltered. :eek:
I can’t get into the games forum on this board. I don’t post from work though.
Mostly I stick to the news, wikipedia and youtube when I have downtime. I always get my work done on time so nobody has complained.
If I need to look up something related to games or that I feel is controversial I will use my mobile phone.
To conserve bandwidth, we’re not supposed to access streaming media (e.g.: Pandora, YouTube, TuneIn, etc.) but they’re not blocked. Blocked sites are pretty much limited to WikiLeaks, anything IT classifies as analytics, porn, gambling (including lotteries), criminal activity, or staging DDoS attacks. Getting caught accessing WikiLeaks or porn are fireable offenses.
They consider WikiLeaks as bad as porn?
I hadn’t heard of anyone blocking WikiLeaks except the military. They claim some of that material is classified. Seems odd because it’s now out there for the public to read.
I’m kind of surprised there are employers who feel it necessary to block porn.
I mean, really?
Federal employee with a security clearance. Same reasoning.
I found that urban dictionary is blocked at my company as ‘adult content’.
Anything to do with alcohol/tobacco/firearms/gambling.
Same here. We have the ability to tell what kinds of sites people visit but there has never been the need/will to implement some sort of blocking (which absolutely could not apply to students).
We do however, block services. We disabled all P2P protocols a few years ago to “protect the integrity of the network”, with the happy accident that it also meant we probably wouldn’t have the RIAA asking us for the names of everyone in the dorms stealing mp3s.
There’s a filter on sites relating to some pictures, and apparently love. The Not Always Right site works but if I try Not Always Romantic, it’s blocked. Not Always Working (that’s me) works as do the other related sites. Imgur works but not Tumblr. It’s all a bit hit and miss. I’ve never tried porn sites but they are explicitly forbidden in our access policy so I don’t want to go there even by accident. I do feel guilty even if an innocent sounding link takes me to the blocked site notification page. Facebook, Youtube, web email (Gmail, Yahoo) sites all work.
I work in an office/for a company that has 6 people, 3 of whom are closely related. There was no discussion of internet use. I assume if I did anything illegal that would be bad, but they don’t care what I do as long as I get my work done. Of course, as an hourly employee who’s not just here to handle work as it comes up like a cashier or receptionist, I don’t feel like I should be wasting the company’s time on personal internet use.
That’s “Not OK”? Dang.
I worked as a public school teacher, so it was pretty locked down.
I taught math, and liked to teach probability through different games. I would have to submit the individual links and have them unblocked.
I know the administrators were unfiltered, so there was a way it could be done, but if you weren’t an administrator you had the same access as a third grader.
Mostly open - The firewall does have a blacklist, but the list is fairly reasonable.