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San Francisco International Airport censors Danwei

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American Net Nanny

Above is a screen shot from a Danwei reader who tried to access this website a few minutes ago using wireless Internet in a business class lounge in San Francisco International Airport.

Are we too communist? Or is there a problem with the odd four letter word that we occasionally publish?

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Just too racy for a conservative, old-fashioned town like San Francisco, I think.

Hilarious in an ironic way.

"Are we too communist? Or is there a problem with the odd four letter word that we occasionally publish?"---GOLDKORN

Please, sir. Nancy Pelosi is from there and its the farthest left city of all the States. Perhaps Danwei isn't doing enough to be as worthy as those leftists desire.

that's interesting...
some people should make a big deal out of it.
American net nanny, charming

Could it be the number of videos linked to on the site? They want to save their bandwidth?

netnanny software is the scourge of airports, libraries, and schools everywhere. unfortunately, china has no monopoly on this particular form of stupidity.

check boingboing or other types of blogs for the hilarious and sometimes hypocritical list of websites blocked by most commercial filtering software.

for the children, you know.

SGT SLAUGHTER:

And Nancy Pelosi is a communist?

But you see it's for the children or for security reasons, so it's OK.

Many servers are set to block a range of IP addresses thought to originate in China to guard against attacks. This is not uncommon. A large percentage of attacks come from China and Russia and server administrators have become wary and weary of them. Not political -- just prudent.

You are in good company, Danwei.

I live and work in Chicago area. During the last 2 or 3 years of consulting with various corporate clients here, most of them block twitter, facebook, kaixin (a new addition to the list), and other social networking sites. In a way, that is not surprising.

My understanding is that most of the companies use third-party blocking software, which maintains a list of "inappropriate" sites in the vendor's database, and the vendor constantly updates (mostly added) sites to that database. Before serving the http request, the url is checked against this blacklist. If it is there, then the request will be denied. (certain banned words or combination of words may also run afoul with some regular expression rules).

What I found strange is that sites like Bredan O'Kane's blog is almost always blocked in the places I've been to. Fool's Mountain is also blocked in majority of those places.

This is a sign (my great great great great grandma was one of the original oracle at Delphi. No, not the Greek one, the Matrix one...long story) for the coming right-wing Apocalypse lead by none other than warlord/warlock Sgt. Slaughter and his army of undead red blooded anti-danwei and anti-leftist team Americans! Freak yeah!

All Fengqings such as.. that P guy, are doomed. That all you guys have??? PFFT! There are a lot of us than you bud.


Apologies to Brendan, not Bredan. Sorry.

The people of Breda near Antwerp demand an apology!

"...the coming right-wing Apocalypse lead by none other than warlord/warlock Sgt. Slaughter and his army of undead red blooded anti-danwei and anti-leftist team Americans!"---CureLost

Correct, except I am NOT anti-danwei.

last time I was there, fark was blocked too....

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