An email from LTC Bob. He is unable to read the timeless prose we generate.
Believe it or not - I can’t read Silflay. Our systems admins have some kind of “big brother” program running on the LAN over here called Bluecoat Proxy that blocks all kinds of stuff - including Silflay Hraka, which, according to its tiny encoded decision making process, is a “Political/Activist Groups;Blogs/Newsgroups” and is blocked.
We’re trying to get them to change the settings - hope we can do that - pretty ridiculous in this day and age.
“Political/Activist?” Rather a broad category. There must be thousands of other blogs banned, if that is so.
Hraka is also banned in China. Who have thought that Operation Iraqi freedom would have so much in common with the Chi-coms?
Scorpio says:
It’s more likely that HS has lots in common with the ChiComs. that is one of the things “liberals” object to.
But then, people who honor the Constitution also object to censorship, and it is especially revolting that the troops are subjected to it.
3 November 2007, 2:39 pmSigivald says:
Most likely they’re just poorly configured.
Every censoring proxy I’ve ever heard of lets the controller restrict access to entire classes of things; most likely they told it to block “political” websites without even realizing they were doing it.
5 November 2007, 3:54 pm