QuotePro-union website blocked in Wisconsin Capitol
By the CNN Wire Staff
February 22, 2011 5:51 p.m. EST
Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- A left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters in Wisconsin was partially blocked as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol over a controversial budget bill.
The website, defendwisconsin.org, could not be accessed on Monday and into Tuesday morning in the Capitol building, where crowds assembled over proposed legislation that would increase the costs of benefits to public employees and curb their collective-bargaining rights.
Wisconsin Democratic Party press secretary Graeme Zielinski blamed Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers -- who returned to work Tuesday -- for causing the outage.
"In a direct assault on the First Amendment, Scott Walker's administration is blocking access in the Wisconsin Capitol to opposition websites," Zielinski said.
Rest of Story http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/22/wisconsin.budget/index.html?hpt=T1 (http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/22/wisconsin.budget/index.html?hpt=T1)
After reading the entire article we find...
QuoteThe governor's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, responded Tuesday, calling the accusation "a lie."
"The Department of Administration blocks all new websites shortly after they are created, until they go through a software approval program that unblocks them," Werwie said. "Within 30 minutes of being notified this website was blocked, DOA circumvented the software and immediately made the website accessible."
Pretty common practice... in fact it is usually automated.
This is simply just another example as to why republicans could care less about americans freedoms...they scream americanism but only if you believe the way they do...."DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY".
It was blocked over 24 hours and only made available after they were called on it. How long does a virus scan take?
Quote from: Garden guy on February 23, 2011, 08:05:58 AM
This is simply just another example as to why republicans could care less about americans freedoms...they scream americanism but only if you believe the way they do...."DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY".
LOL Dude, you are like a broken record with this stuff.
Quote from: JeffreyS on February 23, 2011, 08:07:47 AM
It was blocked over 24 hours and only made available after they were called on it. How long does a virus scan take?
Lots of websites are blocked by employers. Website "blacklists" and "whitelists" are very common. Whether you believe 30 minutes or 24 hours... niether is unreasonable. A "virus scan" has nothing to do with anything...
Quote from: BridgeTroll on February 23, 2011, 09:27:21 AM
Quote from: JeffreyS on February 23, 2011, 08:07:47 AM
It was blocked over 24 hours and only made available after they were called on it. How long does a virus scan take?
Lots of websites are blocked by employers. Website "blacklists" and "whitelists" are very common. Whether you believe 30 minutes or 24 hours... niether is unreasonable. A "virus scan" has nothing to do with anything...
Very true. And it's at the discretion of the employer/company. Everybody's different.
Quote from: BridgeTroll on February 23, 2011, 09:27:21 AM
Quote from: JeffreyS on February 23, 2011, 08:07:47 AM
It was blocked over 24 hours and only made available after they were called on it. How long does a virus scan take?
Lots of websites are blocked by employers. Website "blacklists" and "whitelists" are very common. Whether you believe 30 minutes or 24 hours... niether is unreasonable. A "virus scan" has nothing to do with anything...
No kidding - I can think of a dozen websites offhand that are blocked by my company, and not all of them make sense. (I mean, ninjaturtles.com? Really? ...it's none of your damn business what I was doing on that website.)
Ehh.
It's the company's business if they're paying you to do a job and you're on company time wasting their money by not doing what you're supposed to be... or rather doing something you're not supposed to be.
Kinda like posting on MetroJacksonville, in my case :D
Quote from: Doctor_K on February 24, 2011, 02:52:17 PM
Very true. And it's at the discretion of the employer/company. Everybody's different.
employer/company/dictatorship
This practice is very common in China. What's the big fuss about??
The difference in China is that it's the government doing it. Here it's the actual companies.
It was the State of Wisconsin... I accept their explanation... it was a non event... except for the drama miesters at CNN... :)
As a SysAdmin, I've setup way too many webfilters (and tracked and caught everyone that tried to circumvent them) for companies.
Most firewalls and web blockers use whats called a blocklist. These are lists maintained by other companies (usually firewall/web blocker companies) or open source community ones.
If a web blocker is configured to prevent all except for those on the exclusion list, you have to add the site in the allowed list.
If a web blocker uses category blockers, some sites can be misfiltered. Seriously, I've seen web searches for Brasil blocked due to the filter picking up Bra and labeling it as porn.
But without the blockers, old bob in the corner office will sit back and surf porn all day while Jenny in accounting will stream music and the CEO will bitch because the network is slow and we already pay too damn much money.
But no, lets blame it on the opposition parties for not allowing it immediately upon release. I mean the site was first registered on Feb 14, 2011, block/allow lists take time to update new sites.
Quote from: acme54321 on February 23, 2011, 09:13:46 AM
Quote from: Garden guy on February 23, 2011, 08:05:58 AM
This is simply just another example as to why republicans could care less about americans freedoms...they scream americanism but only if you believe the way they do...."DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY".
LOL Dude, you are like a broken record with this stuff.
Thank you so much for the compliment...republicans only won because democrats are not so pushy and loud and a little lazy....if thier followers really know what was going on behind doors...most republican leaders would be in jail.
Quote from: Garden guy on February 25, 2011, 06:58:17 AM
Quote from: acme54321 on February 23, 2011, 09:13:46 AM
Quote from: Garden guy on February 23, 2011, 08:05:58 AM
This is simply just another example as to why republicans could care less about americans freedoms...they scream americanism but only if you believe the way they do...."DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY".
LOL Dude, you are like a broken record with this stuff.
Thank you so much for the compliment...republicans only won because democrats are not so pushy and loud and a little lazy....if thier followers really know what was going on behind doors...most republican leaders would be in jail.
We all breathlessly await your next pronouncement... and spelling lesson.