Re: Blocked Weblog

See below.  Many businesses uses censorware for a variety of purposes, 
supposedly to improve worker productivity, avoid bringing inappropriate 
material into the workplace, etc.  The problem is that censorware is not in 
the least fine-grained, and if the employer is using censorware that has 
you in a broad category, you've been bit.  Here, you're in Secure 
Computing's free pages category.  You and billions of others.

And yes, some censorware products do specifically block blogs.

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The Site: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/
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servers, free Web page hosts, etc. Although many of these Web page 
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At 08:27 PM 4/11/2005 -0400, Stuart Levine wrote:

>I understand the general position of brokerage houses with respect
>to communications emanating from the firm.  However, weblogs, for
>the most part, represent communications to the firm.  Thus, there
>should be no basis for limiting access.
>
>On 11 Apr 2005 at 16:35, Greg Broiles wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Apr 11, 2005 2:41 PM, Stuart Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Some of you may find my weblog posting here: > >
> > http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/04/writers-block.html > > or here: > >
> > http://snipurl.com/dyaw > > to be of interest.  It deals with a
> > discovery that I made last Friday, > namely that access to my weblog
> > was blocked via a stock > brokerage internet connection.
> >
> > I tried to respond via your weblog, but got an error when I tried to
> > post.
> >
> > The gist of my comment was that this isn't too surprising to me, given
> > the regulatory environment within which brokers operate. SEC and
> > broker/dealer regulation are not my field, but it's my impression that
> > there are rules (created by either SEC or NASD or both) that require
> > brokers to retain copies of *every* written communication between
> > brokers and [potential] customers, as well as baroque rules regarding
> > the content of the communications. In that light, claming down on
> > blogs doesn't strike me as out of character.
> >
> > See, for example, <http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_youve_mail/>
> > (circa 2000) discussing whether or not it's a good idea for brokers to
> > be allowed to use E-mail, and discussing that a regulatory ruling
> > allowing same was only 2 years old at that time.
> >
> > --
> > Greg Broiles, JD, EA
> > [email protected] (Lists only. Not for confidential communications.)
> > Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles San Jose, CA
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