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[li]An article on WWII and the Holocaust. Reason: “hate”.[/li][li]Web pages relating to the M48 Apocalypse Tactical Tomahawk. Reason: “weapons”.[/li][li]Century Martial Arts, a site that sells karate uniforms and gear. Reason: “weapons/martial arts”.[/li][li]Bloody-disgusting.com, a site with horror movie news and reviews. Reason: “gore”.[/li][li]The SDMB thread on “what’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans?” Reason: “hate”.[/li][li]Cabela’s. Reason: “guns”.[/li][li]My favorite so far: YouTube video of the 1985 Andy Williams Christmas Special. Reason: “hate”. I shit you not.[/li][/ol]
Feel free to come up with some of your own, or links to web pages that I can try and see if they get blocked. Understand, though, that there’s a very real possibility that, depending on what gets posted here, I may be blocked from this very thread and thus have to reply from home; I’ve had SDMB threads blocked before for various reasons. Hell, I can’t even look at many gun-related threads without running afoul of the “guns” filter (seriously, we’re a prosecution office. We just might have to look up stuff relating to weapons from time to time!). Anyway, what’cha got?
I was once trying to find some model train kits to build and our filter blocked me from accessing one of the kit manufacturers’ websites, “Sunshine Models,” for being R-rated.
Not an office internet filter, but somewhat related:
My wife was trying to register on a website a few years ago, but she was being automatically turned down. The reason being given was something like “inappropriate username.” Stumped us for a bit, until I realized that her (Japanese) last name had “shit” in it.
I could not access the CPR videos on a website. Our department director referred us to that site for training purposes. Reason was a general block on streaming videos.
Our office provides for membership in a professional association for the 9-1-1 emergency services industry. Training articles from that association’s newsletter are routinely blocked for violence or gun related issues.
The people of Scunthorperegularly have problems with people not being able to access their local sites, or search for info on the town. Something to do with a banned word, apparently
My department at work occasionally gets requests to unblock stuff that shouldn’t have been blocked. My favorite so far is the request to unblock http://www.hotlicksexhaust.com/ It’s a website devoted to really cool vehicle exhaust systems, I promise!
(Yup, we unblocked it. But then, my coworkers also thought it was okay to unblock thesun.co.uk, because obviously the ‘nudity’ tag couldn’t be right… Do a google search for page three girls if you don’t get it. Actually, don’t. Especially if you’re at work.)
We don’t use a filter, but some of our users do. One reported recently being unable to reach one of our web sites. I checked how it was categorized with their filtering software: “content server”.
I think their IT staff must have set their filter to block any URL that had any category at all. Even the boring and appropriate for work ones.
Are offices really using filters that catch simple strings in domain names, in 2012? The commercial content filters I’m aware of don’t work that way (they’re certainly prone to errors, but they look at the content, not just the url).
You could try to read the Wiki page on the mathematician Jacques Tits: Jacques Tits - Wikipedia. There is an Indian mathematician named Dickshit, you might try googling him. See if you find out anything about annihilators. It is a technical concept. A friend got reported to airport security because he was discussing annihilators with another mathematician. Then there is the Killing form (named for the eponymous mathematician who created it).
