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Anybody's else's work classify AfterElton as porn?I was shocked the other day when I tried to access afterelton.com at work to show an employee, another Torchwood fan (and huge Dr. Who fan) the liveblog. I got a blocked message saying that the company's web filters called the site "Pornography." I don't work for a particularly repressed company - domestic partner benefits, workplace anti-discrimination policies, etc. And we don't block entertainment sites - we design and install high-end home theaters for people, and TV & movie trivia look-up capability is almost central to the job. Anybody else have this problem?
Submitted by Ed (347 points) (69 posts) on Mon, 2008-03-24 11:54. |
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My workplace blocks it as...
..."Gay and Lesbian Interest"...which strikes me as the height of discrimination.
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We've heard this issue from other folks. Some
As if gay/lesbian interest were a bad thing :-(
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Likely not the popular view
I suspect it won't be the popular view but as long as the employer is paying for the bandwidth the employer is within its moral authority to control the use of and access to its resources.
If the websurfing at work policy or filtering is too restrictive for you, go to a net cafe on your lunch break, just find another employer or wait until you get home.
I surf AfterElton all day,
I surf AfterElton all day, but made the choice a long time ago not to look at other Gay-Interest sites like the Advocate because, more often than not, they have some kind of crazy suggestive advertising on the first page that would immediately make someone walking by think I was looking at porn. That's sad.
AfterElton does that on occasion, too, but not as often as other sites.
Me Too!
I spend a ridiculous amount of time on AfterElton. Especially on Fridays. If I have a lot of work to do, I try to hold out until 5:00p.m. when I can look at all the blog posts at once.
If By Gay You Mean Totally Freaking Awesome, The Yeah, I Guess It's Pretty Gay
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Count me in on that!
I probably spend more time than the average homo on here, but I frickin' love it! Especially love the live bloggin' whenever Nuke (Puke, take your pick) is in the house. lol...
I don't particularly like the other sites mentioned either. The Advocate is a shadow of it's former self to my estimation. Way too much STR8 crap in the issues, even when they do the 100 favorite people or whatever. They have more STR8's on the cover than they do gay. I like INSTINCT better than any of the gay mags out there. GENRE and OUT are worthless. They have way too many ads in those rags. I used to like DETAILS, but their advertising is taking over the damn magazine!
Hey, I surf AfterElton constantly, too. Oh, wait
No.
I have had no problem connecting to AfterElton at work, though I tend not to! :o)
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Internet Filters.
If you really want to know why AfterElton is blocked at work, you should ask about the filters they use. Some companies simply buy a filter program without checking into it very much. Some of these filters will automatically flag a site for using the word gay or using a work like fcuk.
Other filter systems actually have people vet certain sites, like AfterElon, but often they use a double standard. While the AfterElon briefs photos might be enough for them to block this site as porn, a steemy screen cap of a hetrosexual couple in bed won't raise an eye at a Soap Opera site.
I would ask about the filter system, then talk to the people who design that system, whether in house or a for hire filter.