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	<title>Entertaining Code &#187; Censorship</title>
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		<title>Potentially Damaging Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blog has been blocked by the websense blocker softwa [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My blog has been blocked by the <a href="http://www.websense.com">websense</a> blocker software my employer uses. Which means I can&#8217;t access my own blog from work, which is sort of funny&#8230; especially considering I&#8217;m publishing many of the same posts on the internal blogging system as well.</p>
<p>My opinions are obviously to be considered &#8220;damaging&#8221;.</p>
<p>I guess that just shows the inherently bad idea with filtering in various forms, going from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_Problem">silly but annoying</a> or <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001176.html">harmless</a> to the <a href="http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/essays/xstop_truth.php">downright</a> <a href="http://www.peacefire.org/amnesty-intercepted/">dangerous</a> and <a href="http://www.peacefire.org/blind-ballots/">anti-democratic</a> (happened again in the <a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/com/wbsn/T2QUKDPLJ8MC8DBHC">latest election</a>, it seems).</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what you get for buying blocking software from a company that likes to <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/6/10/16452/0969">list porn sites</a> on its web pages while selling easily circumventable blocker software. It makes me wonder what wacky filter grepped on to the site, and what exactly it disliked&#8230; but then again, I just posted this criticism of blocking software, so now I&#8217;m bound to be censored until the end of time.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
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<div id="attachment_82" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-82" title="Potentially Damaging Content" src="http://www.entertainingcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/block-small.png" alt="Potentially Damaging Content" width="500" height="338" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Potentially Damaging Content</p></div>
<p></strong>I&#8217;m still blocked. I&#8217;ve attempted to contact Websense through their nifty &#8220;contact us&#8221; web form &#8212; it just sent me back to their starting page. I&#8217;ve now sent an email instead, which apparently has been ignored or put on hold in some forgotten inbox.</p>
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