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Making software for the Military-Industrial Complex™ is just a cover to deflect attention away from my true role as Guardian of All Secure Perimeters for the Network Operations division of the Tri-Lateral Commission (GASP NO TLC). In that capacity, I had occasion on the job today (during a break, out of respect for your tax dollars and mine) to hit that notorious den of social iniquity, Popehat.com. Here is (more or less) what greeted me:

Access Denied (policy_denied)

You have been denied access to: http://www.popehat.com/ ;

Category: Violence/Hate/Racism

Your IP is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. All web activity is being monitored.
The local time is: [15/May/2008:09:07:33 -0400]
Proxy IP is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

If you feel you should have access to this site contact the Service Desk at NPA-NXX-NNNN and provide this information. For assistance, contact your network support team.

So there you have it.  The Powers That Bomb think we're probably a Violence/Hate/Racism site.  Some of our sister nodes in the intolerance network were also filtered.  (They can say it was because of our bandwidth, but that's just the Official Story.)

Now that "they" cannot see us, the rocky road to Revolution should be much smoother. Meet me in the forum for logistical planning.

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4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Ken  •  May 15, 2008 @9:38 am

    Hmm. I wonder if that is based on some sort of automated filter, or if someone exercised some discretion?

    If it's a filter, it would be amusing and indicative of how clumsy such things are if posts discussing racism triggered it.

    If it's based on discretion, I wonder what they were thinking of. Perhaps posts making fun of Canada's hate speech laws?

  2. David  •  May 15, 2008 @9:53 am

    Aren't the Knights Templar Catholic?

  3. Patrick  •  May 15, 2008 @9:55 am

    I do believe that I used the term "iceback" in a previous post. A discretionary filter would have perceived that the term was used with love.

  4. RobF  •  May 15, 2008 @11:37 am

    This may be part of the concern.