First time poster, long time lurker (10 plus years).
As someone who runs an IT company out of NJ dealing with small businesses, we also do DNS filtering of websites on our clients’ computers. However, we only do it as a way of protecting their machines from potential malware or phishing. For instance, VERY few categories of websites would be blocked by us by default (those less than 30 days old, known malicious sites, etc). Everything else gets determined by the client and whether they want to let their employees to have access to specific sites. One of our clients specifically wanted Youtube blocked, even though some of their employees use it for training videos. Also, if a specific website is blocked, it can easily be requested to be unblocked by the click of a button.
The email being delayed should be an easy fix for the IT company to take care of.
Feel free to pm me if you would like if you have any questions or need any further advice (my account is too new to send a pm).
Get cellphone. Work computers are for work.
Isn’t blocking websites or which websites to block up to the company that hires the IT?
Ask then to whitelist “FreeRepublic.com” and anything else you desire.
Most of these are reasonable categories to block until you get to this "Contentious and Misinformation Social Networking, Terrorism, and Hate"
Find out what sites are blocked.
Is FR blocked while DU is not? Twitter, Truth Social blocked while Reddit or Mastadon is not?
I think the best approach is to tell them that you, as as a client, have problems with their block list and it is causing friction and forcing you to reevaluate your business relationship with them.
Take it from there.