Today I found out from a friend that my site is being blocked by the censorware company SonicWALL. The category they use is "Games", which is absurd, since I'm not a gaming website, I don't host games, and I have never linked to games.
I'm not sure why I'm being filtered, but SonicWALL does not provide people a way to appeal your label. Once it's set, apparently it's final.
I've found some other people who have had the same experience:
http://www.onlineconfessional.com/blog/archive/000018.html
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/000798.html
http://www.zenarchery.com/2006/04/25/panera-bread-censors-their-wi-fi/
http://mediagirl.org/node/593
UPDATE - I found a link off the last posting above and was able to request a re-examination of my website. We'll see how it goes. They promise to get me reclassified within 3-5 days. I don't hope for much for two reasons: 1. My language and content can be kind of raw at times, and seeing how I just called Ann Coulter a tranny I'll likely be classified as pornography, and 2. If sites that employ SonicWALL don't install filtering updates (could happen) then my newly reclassified site is still blocked. I don't know what their policy is for making people update, but just like all those people I know that don't update their anti-virus after installing, this could be the same thing.
Hello, I'm the Zenarchery.com guy. I also had the option to unblock my site...but my thinking was, why should I involve myself in their Net censorship project in any way, even if it's only to "clear" my website? I'd rather simply boycott Panera Bread and any other company that utilizes this company's absurd censoring tool.
But that's just me. :-)
fucking sonic wall