Friends,
This site is now blocked by Websense at San Diego’s Omnipresent Charitable Organization. Actually, all sites hosted on the blogspot.com domain have been silenced. Other “social networking and personal journaling” sites have been disappeared as well. TypePad sites are among them, but there are a couple that missed the axe for now. I won’t name them and give the thugs ideas, though.
It’s disconcerting of course, but I worry about the greater message. Alternative and private opinion isn’t welcome at a place that some might consider progressive, and that’s a choice made by some anonymous individual. Was it us? Was it a Websense update that just automatically installed (which is likely since it happened on the 15th)? Was it an executive decision made to enforce parity with our ban on Facebook and MySpace? And this—will it make the place happier and more productive?
I’m not happy, if that’s any indication.
By the way, you can send this URL to yourself and give it a try: http://tinyurl.com/39fjs9 It’s a TinyURL for the giant link to this site through the YouHide proxy server. Here’s another one: http://tinyurl.com/26vbdk from SurfUnblocked. The nice thing about this one is that the advertising banner doesn’t seem to be that overwhelming. Proxy servers. Geez, it’s come to this.
Your pal,
bob