Blocked Website
An interesting thing happened earlier today. I had to go to court this morning to obtain some forms. While I was in court, I checked my email and posting messages from my blogs. Everything was fine.
When I tried to log on www.uschess.org, the access was blocked. A message popped up with a sentence something like: "Access denied! You've tried to enter an inappropriate website."
I first thought that the court Internet does not allow accessing any website. So I double checked by typing www.SusanPolgar.com. It went through. So I checked www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org. It also went through. Then I checked www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com. No problem again!
I then typed the USCF website again and the same message came up. Does that mean that the NY court find the USCF website inappropriate?
posted by Chess Daily News @ 1/12/2007 10:59:00 AM
2 Comments:
At Friday, January 12, 2007 3:52:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
There are various different filters that use many different techniques. I'm guessing the filter in question was very pessimistic in its approach.
For example "cockpit" is a common word that causes a lot of filters to mark a site as bad.
At Friday, January 12, 2007 4:14:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
There are filters which maintain lists of popular "Game" sites to prevent users from tying up computers on supposedly frivolous things. It's likely that USCF has a "Game" or "Chess" tag, which flagged it for filtering. Your website, not similarly "tagged", might have made it through. No filter is perfect. Many companies use such filters to keep their employees from wasting time on the internet.
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