UPDATE: FreeRepublic blocked as "pornography" ???

[RileyD, nwJ]

UPDATE - UPDATE - UPDATE

It was not just FreeRepublic.com

First it was:
Access to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse has been blocked by WebMarshal™
Access to this site was blocked by the rule 'Block pornography'.
Your attempt to access this site has been recorded.
Contact your WebMarshal administrator if you need access to this site for business purposes

Then it was:
Access to http://www.michellemalkin.com/ has been blocked by WebMarshal™
Access to this site was blocked by the rule 'Block pornography'.
Your attempt to access this site has been recorded. Contact your WebMarshal administrator if you need access to this site for business purposes.

Followed by:
Access to http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/ has been blocked by WebMarshal™
Access to this site is restricted by the rule 'Warn suspected offensive language'.
Access to this site has not been granted, but if you need to access this site for business purposes you can receive temporary access by clicking the button below.
Note: your access to this site will be recorded.

[RileyD, nwJ]

Contacted Dayton Airport comment page to send the following:

Comment1: I am appreciative of the free wireless found at Dayton International Airport when I find myself waiting for a flight.
Comment2: I am not appreciative of the individual in IT who is busy labeling political/news/commentary sites he/she disagrees with as pornography via your WebMarshall.

Which brings me to my questions.

Question1: Why has your IT department lableled www.freerepublic.com and www.michellemalkin.com as pornography?
Question2: Who is doing this?
Question3: Why has your IT department labeled confederateyankee.mu.nu " as suspecious of "offensive language"?

Comment3: It was offensive to receive the following messages
#1
- Access to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse has been blocked by WebMarshal™
- Access to this site was blocked by the rule 'Block pornography'.
- Your attempt to access this site has been recorded

#2
- Access to http://www.michellemalkin.com/ has been blocked by WebMarshal™
- Access to this site was blocked by the rule 'Block pornography'.
- Your attempt to access this site has been recorded.

#3
- Access to http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/ has been blocked by WebMarshal™
- Access to this site is restricted by the rule 'Warn suspected offensive language'.
- Access to this site has not been granted, but if you need to access this site for business purposes you can receive temporary access by clicking the button below.
- Note: your access to this site will be recorded.

Comment4: Please have your IT department stop labeling political/news/commentary sites as pornography. Stick to labeling pornography as pornography.

CommentFinal: Really appreciate your Business Traveler Centers whenever my flights are delayed.

Cheers!

[Sun]

later read!

[Just another Joe]

Let us know the reply you get.

[P-40]

Must be from all those Paris Hilton and RuPaul pictures.

[theDentist]

Let us know their reply, please.

[spyone]

Well done!

[RileyD, nwJ]

Thanks to all those who replied to the first posting on this issue and how it might be addressed and where.

Cheers!

RileyD, nwJ

[HEY4QDEMS]

Try accessing DU and see what happens, then you may have yourself a nice little story lead for FOX to follow up on.

[irish guard]

Earlier this week, there was a link to some photos of a woman from DC who was an “escort”...they were full nude shots on the link.

[Edgerunner]

The left is bankrupt. They must resort to this kind of subterfuge. They also employ vandalism and hate crime.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I sure some of the ideas discussed on Free Republic are considered pornographic to the politically correct crowd.

I don’t agree with everyone or all ideas presented here, but there is a great presentation of ideas here. People tend to be able to back up their positions with facts and figures and logical arguments here. There is no “group think” here.

Free Republic and such sites are considered a threat by some people precisely because people here do think for themselves. We are not told what to think or how to think here. People disagree with one another here all the time, but for the most part present logical arguments in favor of their positions. On some sites, you hear “Bush lied, people died” and there is no critical thinking done about such statements.

[mtnwmn]

For a minute there I thought you must be using an NPS computer. This is most interesting.

[RileyD, nwJ]

NPS computer?

[Buckeye McFrog]

reminds me of the old Woody Allen movie where he pans across a seedy looking newsstand, and there are copies of Hustler, Penthouse and National Review hanging there

[DManA]

CyberSitter often blocks FR too. Usually there is some word that triggers it.

[Always Right]

Try accessing DU and see what happens, then you may have yourself a nice little story lead for FOX to follow up on.

My guess it DUmmie land is OK.

[CJ Wolf]

My work blocks it as ‘Tasteless’. But they block just about everything.

[Stayfree]

Try accessing salon and few other moonbat sites.

[Minutemen]

“Web Marshal” ?

[ml/nj]

Must be a new thing. I have used the Dayton Airport and their wireless pretty often though maybe not for a year or so now, I've never had any trouble getting to FR.

ML/Nj