So not supported

[helen99]

After approximately 8 years of blocking sites like Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter but allowing Livejournal, work has arbitrarily chosen to reverse this and allow Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter but block LJ. That's why this spot has been relatively silent during the day (not that I posted that much before).

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[angus-mcnitt.livejournal.com]

WTF-BBQ-DonkeyKong

That makes no sense, from a tech perspective. YouTube kills your bandwidth. Everytime they decide to openit as a test, the flood out our uplink.

Allowing Twitter makes sense if you read this.

But LJ? Stupid policies.

[janeoftrades.livejournal.com]

Dilbert ftw!

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, the prez likes to use YouTube to give his presidential addresses, so in effect they were blocking the Whitehouse if they blocked YouTube. Same applies to Twitter - he communicates with his constintuency through twitter, and blocking it was annoying him and the administration. I actually highly approve of unblocking all of that. Why LJ? It serves no purpose to law enforcement, government organizations, or defense corporations, and allows "too much" freedom of creativity. People can write at length about any subject they want, and make it entirely inaccessible to people the writers want to keep out. I guess my workplace considers this respect of anonymity a waste of their resources...

Facebook, on the other hand, is accessible to the world, and connections through Facebook go to many places, including the FBI, corporations, and whatever else. They make it pretty hard not to share at least some information about yourself (like who your friends are), and provide useful info for employers, and probably a lot of other organizations.

All of the above being conjecture and not verified facts, to be taken with salt lick.

[elven-ranger.livejournal.com]

*boggle* facebook is far worse than LJ

[helen99.livejournal.com]

What I think happened is, they simultaneously got some more aggressive content filtering software, and also received a mandate from higher ups that social networking was no longer forbidden. However, they only know about social networking sites like Facebook. They have no clue about LJ. So, maybe LJ got caught in their filter and no exception was made for it the way they made exceptions for the more well-known sites.

That is just... so.... backwards

[daughterofodhin.livejournal.com]

seriously

Re: That is just... so.... backwards

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why they need to block any sites at all, unless they're known malware traps.