How many of you see your place of business block THR?

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Last base didn't have it blocked, and I don't have many reasons to go online at the current base. Occasionally to check the weather, but I don't even need that. I just call the weather shop and ask to have a briefing faxed over.
The thing with companies blocking sites like THR doesn't strike me as an anti-gun thing, though. I see it as a productivity thing. If all the people that work for a company are browsing their favorite forum all day and discussing their hobby of choice, they aren't working, which is what they're getting paid to do.
 
I don't even block porn. But I block MySpace. Oh yeah I do.
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Good move. After my first visit there, I felt the overwhelming urge to wash my hands :(

We don't block THR at work. Of course, we deal in guns :)
 
Anything that might be remotely related to weapons is blocked here at my job site. I wanted to find the address to ship my Victorinox Swiss Army knife for repairs, and that site is blocked. There are very few sites that I guess they haven't found out about that are not blocked, and I am a Moderator on Ohioans for Concealed Carry.org, that site is not blocked- then I checked my IP address usage logs and discovered another user of that forum uses the same IP adress as I use when I am at my job site- and it appears he is a sysadmin here at this company- so I think I am OK for that site!

Plus EweTube, Photobucket, any peer-to-peer sharing, any means by which data can be transferred in blocks, any sort of social sites, anything vaguely related to porn, I was even looking up a menstuation schedule to help a collegue with rhythm contraception, and that stuff is blocked as "Sexual Expression, Nudity Related".

Heck, my wife asked me to try to redeem her Pampers Points and they would not allow the Pampers site to load (You know, Pampers diapers???) No reason why, just "Access is forbidden to Adware/Spamware. Refer to XXXXX article in the employee manual." Since I don't actually work for this company (They are my company's customer) I have no idea what sort of evil the Pampers web site contains.


It even disallows Google searches that use words it does not like.

Sigh.

I honestly think that someone is monitoring my specific IP to see what I access a lot and then block it. It would Not surprise me at all.

Makes it rough when you visit a legit site, and they use adware that refers to a blocked site for a picture or something, it kills the whole page.

Blocking Photobucket was a low blow, though, and really irked me mightily.

Luckily, they have not blocked my ability to dial out on an outside line and link up to a dialup server and company VPN. At least I can get to THR and stuff that way. Although my company VPN blocks a lot of stuff too, like my online poker game, anything porn related, etc.
 
Mine blocks YouTube, social networking sites, (ahem) "sites of ill-repute", gambling, and anything booze-related. Doesn't block any gun-related sites, which is amazing to me.

edit: also blocks proxy servers.
 
Mine does using Websense, almost anything related to "Weapons". All gun manufacturer or ammunition manufacturer 'sites, almost all gun related forums, and some gun blog 'sites blocked. Once upon a time, I could access THR, Alphecca and some other gun related 'sites but now they're all blocked. I really do think someone monitors to see what 'sites are visited and adds them to the blocking list. It's funny, right now I can visit Armed Polite Society, but not THR. That will probably go before too long. Oh well. This is in Texas mind you, I figured some people would have a little more sense, but I guess not.

They also block You Tube and some other streaming 'sites. I'm also a computer nerd and many tech sites have You Tube videos on their front page as a tech related story. All I see is a big fat nothing.

And no, I won't tell you where I work.
 
My job (in a hospital) is part of a HUGE corporation with a huge IT department and we block tons of stuff. I can somehow get onto budsgunshop.com and THR but I can't get on a lot of the little sites and places that we visit that they don't like get blocked as well. They blocked craigslist and gmail the first week I was hired. After 4 months they unblocked gmail so thats a relief. A lot of the images on here are just boxes with X's inside them so if you have a pic that people like me need to see (ie selling an item) just post your pic then maybe a pic (not a link) of the manufacturer's product. As long as you label it I will love you to death. Also, we block all proxies and pretty much anything else fun:D
 
I am the IT Supervisor where I work and my boss and I block certain categories in our company. We block Weapons, sex, hacking, and things like that. BUT since my boss and I need access to everything he and I are not blocked from anything.

ALSO, recently the Prez and VP of our company got into guns and have been coming to me to look stuff up for them and print things out that are gun related, since they where blcoked from it too. BUT recently we added them to a group that does not have weapons blocked.
 
No, but we get the guilt trip... The policy is a load of crap really

Seems it is fine if some people are using it for fantasy league football money league picks and stats, but god forbid I look at this site... or any other "Non-work related"...
 
I am the IT Supervisor where I work and my boss and I block certain categories in our company. We block Weapons, sex, hacking, and things like that. BUT since my boss and I need access to everything he and I are not blocked from anything.
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Oh I would LOVE to hear the explanation about this type of policy. "Sex, hacking and things like that" I could understand. But explain to me just what is the rationale behind blocking gun-related websites? And WHO makes the policy decisions since obviously it isn't the President and VP? :confused:
 
My university blocked THR a few days ago, it seems they unblocked it after a couple of days of email exchanges between me and the person I believe has final authority over what gets blocked or not. Except I've noticed some threads come up blocked even though most aren't (for example, the first page of this thread is blocked! but not page 2...weird).
 
I remember back when I was in high school - the filter blocked sites with the words "bomb" or "Hitler". It was great for doing research for US History.
I have no problems at my college or work.

But... the question is, why are employers blocking sites like THR? There's no purpose to it - the only logical answers would be to either block everything that isn't work related or block nothing.
 
The place I worked before I retired didn't block anything I really wanted to look at. Some search engines were blocked, but others would sail right through. I remember one night I tried to look up "Coca-Cola" and was blocked one way, but did a "google" and it went right through. I thought that was odd.

I've got a part time job now, and we don't have internet at all, and wouldn't have time for it if we did. Man the grocery business is REAL WORK!
 
Mine does using Websense, almost anything related to "Weapons". All gun manufacturer or ammunition manufacturer 'sites, almost all gun related forums, and some gun blog 'sites blocked. Once upon a time, I could access THR, Alphecca and some other gun related 'sites but now they're all blocked. I really do think someone monitors to see what 'sites are visited and adds them to the blocking list. It's funny, right now I can visit Armed Polite Society, but not THR. That will probably go before too long. Oh well. This is in Texas mind you, I figured some people would have a little more sense, but I guess not.

They also block You Tube and some other streaming 'sites. I'm also a computer nerd and many tech sites have You Tube videos on their front page as a tech related story. All I see is a big fat nothing.

And no, I won't tell you where I work.
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websense...fort worth, tx.... yet me guess... radioshack???? if it is radioshack they have so many flaws in the security. here is one. hthy block lots of sites, but ones that can use a https instead of http dont get blocked.......
so in the case of gmail they block http://www.gmail.com but not https://www.gmail.com
 
I surprised THR doesn't get blocked for porn. How many "Revolver Porn" threads are there, for instance?

~Dale
 
Add another to the network administrator column

We have a separate connection for web browsing.
 
Well, if I weren't a network admin, I would just pop in the Verizon Broadband card.
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P.S. USB broadband aircards are available now too...in case anyone would find that useful.
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forgive my ignorance, what are these things and how do they work?
 
LOL, when we first installed our webfilter, my phone started ringing off the hook. Management had dictated that "weapons" would be a blocked category.

Then my phone started ringing.

And I answered again and again, "sorry man, that's what the bosses want" while I surfed THR and DPMS through my encrypted tunnel home.

Then the owner called. "Why the hell can't i get to Remington's website?"

"Well, um, because you told me to block weapons."

"Well that's just stupid, unblock that **** now."

*clickety-click*

"Done."

and that was that.
 
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