My schools blocker used to block their own site from time to time.
I wouldnt really call it stupidity, school IT or the vendor (im sure they payed some absurd amout for the service) would tweak the filter and the school site would get flagged.
I have worked for companies that dealt with content filters. This was in the UK where a number of counties in the south of England have “sex” as the last three letters. The problem is non-trivial.
And if you think it is, my second sentence here contains ‘have “sex”’ in a context that is very hard to distinguish from a context a school might not want their students investigating. If you are reading this through your school’s blocker… well you might not be. It might have been blocked already.
My schools blocker used to block their own site from time to time. I wouldnt really call it stupidity, school IT or the vendor (im sure they payed some absurd amout for the service) would tweak the filter and the school site would get flagged.
I have worked for companies that dealt with content filters. This was in the UK where a number of counties in the south of England have “sex” as the last three letters. The problem is non-trivial.
And if you think it is, my second sentence here contains ‘have “sex”’ in a context that is very hard to distinguish from a context a school might not want their students investigating. If you are reading this through your school’s blocker… well you might not be. It might have been blocked already.