This just in: apparently if you work at a place that uses WebSense, then you’re not reading this! Dan from Mental Deviance wrote today:

Hey guys, guess what! Jerry’s & Tim Boucher’s sites are both blocked by a program called Websense that is used in the school district I teach in. They are not blocked on all computers though. Different categories can be activated, so when I am at the local high school, I can visit their sites, but at the Juvenile Hall their sites are blocked under “Occult and Alternative Religion.” Isn’t that total bullshit? Alternative Religion is blocked in a government facility!

Also, Tim’s site was just recently added to the database, because his site wasn’t blocked a few weeks ago.

OH GOODY! As everybody knows, alternative religion is the number one threat in America today. I mean, I guess I’d be a lot more up in arms over this if I wasn’t pretty much expecting it. You know, if they’d block somebody like Maddox, then they’d block me. I like Maddox’s solution: block them bitches back. Does anybody know of a website that lets you track various web-filtering software and see if you’re on their “shit list”?

Anyway, it’s certainly an “interesting” problem to put it mildly. What if one day the switch is thrown, and our communications link is severed? Jeremy wrote earlier about the need to develop offline communication to back this up, so we can continue publishing and sharing ideas in case the whole country decided to “filter” us out. I hate putting up two semi-paranoid posts back to back, but it seems worth thinking about. I mean, I know if I lost my cell phone, I’d basically not know anybody’s phone number. But if I lost internet access too? I don’t even like to think about it.