Today, April 20, 2001, was another chapter in my detestment and hatred of
filtering systems.
Somewhere along the pipe, some moron felt that everything2.com deserved to be blocked, so they added it to
BESS's not-allowed list. Supposedly things go from unbanned to banned (pending local review, as opposed to
n2h2 review), as opposed to banned then unbanned.
Apparently some
prick along the line felt that everything2 was offensive to them (and undoubtedly, them alone) and decided that
no one should be able to see the site.
In
IE, that is. Our little
linux box could load the site fine, in
Lynx. Didn't try
Netscape, but chances are it would have worked.
As of 12:55 PM CST, the site isn't blocked anymore. That's a good thing too, I was in the middle of something when BESS became a
bitch and said "
Bess can't go there"
To hell with all
proponents of filtering and
censorship. It is
a contradiction of thought, and of liberty, regardless of who practices it.
It's now 4:31 PM, and the filter is long since gone. A total of less than 1 hour.
Too damn long, if you ask me.
My theory stems from how our district (
Pulaski County Special Schools District, in
Arkansas) is set up. It's divided at the source into two routes, filtered and unfiltered. Our school is normally on
unfiltered (as a result of much hellraising by my
11th Grade AP English/
EAST teacher, and many others).
Apparently they needed to do some work on the unfiltered line, and moved us over to the filtered line, much to my disgust. I'd rather have had
none, than had it but
censored. Seeing Bess telling me where I can and cannot go is the equivalent to kicking me down, kicking me in the face, and telling me I don't know shit.
Fuck
Bess, maybe I'll run the damn
bitch over someday.
And fuck you
N2H2, and all that you
represent.