Thursday, August 13, 2015

Target Liberty Blocked at Seagate Technologies?

A Seagate employee emails:
Hi Robert,

I’m a regular reader of both of your sites (EconomicPolicyJournal, Target Liberty). You were even kind enough to answer a simple economics question I had a few month ago (thank you again). I visit both of your sites multiple times a day, except starting today. Some time, mid day today, here in Colorado, my employer, Seagate, blocked both of your sites. They also blocked Lewrockwell.com. I assume there might be a technical reason for this (I am an engineer, so technical excuses are always what I assume), only because I’m trying to think the best of my employer. Baring a technical excuse it appears that it’s political! Considering the site I work at just spent $1,000’s on trash cans for composting (in addition to the 45 other types of trash they’d like us to sort out) the political excuse may be more likely.

Just thought I’d let you know just in case there is some technical bug, maybe you could ask your IT team.

In the name of full disclosure, I’m a very disgruntled employee here. But I assure you I’ve done nothing to aggravate my employer (times are tough, layoffs are imminent). As common as visits to your sites are for me, there are several other sites that I visit just as often that were not blocked.

Best Regards,
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4 comments:

  1. RDF2August 13, 2015 at 10:59 PM

    First they ignore you...

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  2. AnonymousAugust 14, 2015 at 1:12 AM

    Most companies purchase software for blocking not-safe-for-work websites and time sucking websites like facebook. These software packages run off of manually updated lists best I can tell. When I run into one at a hotel or some business I am visiting or even some employers of mine I test them with websites that should be blocked but are too obscure to get manually entered. They go through time and time again. This tells me it's a manual list.

    Once I found LRC blocked but of course obscure sites were not. The companies using these packages rarely have any clue what is blocked beyond basics like 'facebook' and 'playboy'. So it's the blocking software makers more times than not. IT people may or may not be willing to white list sites.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 14, 2015 at 1:24 AM

    Unless this is a highly personal blockage, this is a bad trend. Employers in America are scared of alternative news. I don't know if I want to live in Kansas anymore, it doesn't look quite like Kansas.

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  4. iakobosAugust 14, 2015 at 9:32 AM

    Looks like Seagate needs to watch, among other things, Penn and Teller's BS episode on recycling. Or have they blocked them too? Maybe Penn and Teller need to do an episode on the BS of censorship since Seagate has apparently done so.

    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/

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