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I see your University is on a race to the bottom. The lack of academic integrity implied buy filtering for "useful content" is astounding.

curious what algorithm you use to determine that. i personally think my blog has useful content. maybe because i talked about a job it looks like just a job board?

-- Max

Heaven forbid college students get jobs.

I'm not really sure to be honest. Job boards and such things are not blocked. I've never this category before. It's not blocked; it's just flagged.

edit: just noticed it has a secondary category as: "potentially damaging content"

Is it hacker news that's potentially damaging or my blog? If its my blog I'm kinda flattered :)

(Would rather be "potentially damaging" than useless)

-- Max

Also, they use websense which holds a master list of categorised sites so it is very very likely that a lot of other people from other companies and universities also see your site as flagged. You should email websense and ask to get your URl removed.

Wow, I never knew web filtering software had moved beyond the obvious (pornographic, malware, etc) to "no useful content".

That be considered true for most of the Internet, and yet there's nothing wrong with that. The internet isn't just for work!