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My SonicWall is blocking this website.

  This site has been blocked by your network administrator
  URL: http://www.lucy-ives.com/
  Block policy: CFS Default Policy
  Client IP address: [redacted]
  Block reason: Violence/Hate/Racism


Unfortunately we at SonicWall can't disclose exactly what we're protecting you from, or we wouldn't really be protecting you from it, would we? We even had internal discussions about whether or not spelling out the words "Violence/Hate/Racism" went too far by itself.


lol this isn't the "Big Brother" 1984 reveal you're making it out to be. It's pretty likely just their IP address is blacklisted. It was probably used previously for a malicious host.

It's quite easy to change my firewall policy. It's just strange that this happened since it almost never does.


To each their own, I guess. I can't (or just won't) change my visceral reaction to hearing about how somebody brought a corporate censor into their network. It's not "1984", it just makes me, personally, slightly sad and confused.


Try replacing your judgment with education and understanding. My home office has servers with static IP addresses, hosting profitable businesses with other people's data.

It may be time to grow out of your visceral reaction


"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."

I'll keep my gut reactions, thank you very much. They protect me from phishing and other, higher-profile charlatans.


"Malicious host" likely meaning one that disagreed with the Current Thing




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