Posting photos of Helen Thomas has been known to break a few hard drives.
The nerd(s) in charge of the firewall configuration are leftist twits?
This part kicks a lot of sites out of workplaces via firewall. Simply put, all links out of a site are scanned and if they link to a site that has malware on it, bam, it goes on a block list. Every link someone adds to this site increases the chance of that. I'm thinking, for example, about all the Examiner.com blog links. That site is so full of malware and tracking software it isn't even funny.
If it’s been related to malware, sometimes those are blocked IP address range, which invariably catches innocent sites at the same hosting service. Otherwise, many products block sites that contain blogs or discussion groups.
Are the DUmmies blocked, too?
because this site has no kiddie porn?
When I was a contractor to the Air Force they simply said that the site had chat or bulletin board posting capabilities and was therefore a restricted site.
Must be the DUFU threads.
Navy Marine Corps Internet (NMCI) doesn’t block FR.
Years ago when I worked for the Army FR was blocked as “firearms/criminal enterprise”...
Free Republic is completely against the indoctrination of homo’s into our armed forces.
Perhaps this is a reason?
Because Freerepublic.com is not the Huffington Post or the like. /s =.=
Because biological and chemical warfare is posted on the weekly Gardening Thread.
The DoD blocked access for a day or two, but enough of us requested explanations that they restored it.
Posting photos of Helen Thomas has been known to break a few hard drives.
Recently I renewed my Kaspersky internet security. I can access FR, but when I attempt to post a comment, I get this message:
Kaspersky
Internet Security 2011
Access denied
The requested URL cannot be provided
URL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/
2740421/posts?page=35
Blocked by Parental Control
Reason: Heuristic analysis (drugs, violence)
Click here if you think the web page has been blocked incorrectly.
It is soooo frustrating. I tried to disable this “Parental Control” and failed. I plan to contact Kaspersky and hopefully get the problem fixed. I have used them for several years and never had this happen before.
Now when I click to “Post” this, I will have to go through the same thing.
I have gotten malware off of links on Drudgereport.com, FR is no different. Its an intermediary that links to the unknown. I am glad the Navy is smart enough to protect its computer systems.
FR seemed to have a virus for a couple of weeks. That might be the reason for the blocking.
It was bad coding, I think.
On the thread pages, just below the article and before the comments, was a link to youtube videos.
On my IE-based browser the coding for that youtube link caused multiple IE windows to open. This did not happen with Firefox.
I noticed in the IE-based browser that multiple different youtube codes would appear. The coding was causing IE to try to load youtube videos with each new link being in a new pop-up.
It acted like a virus, but the problem has stopped. Apparently JohnRob did some recoding and removed the youtube section when the server was down a few days ago.
So far I have had 4-5 friends that have been affected logging on here at FreeRepublic. They found that they now go to FreeRepublic for their news instead of CNN, they question anything written by a liberal on their computer websites , they no longer believe in global warming and refuse to believe anything coming from the MSM. Darn, that virus is nasty!!!!!