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tweet from Spencer Ackerman

'DOD wants me to know it's not deciding to block the Guardian's website, its automatic classification content filters are. So there's that.'

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/350597454627995648

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The "automatic classification content filters" that can't prevent classified material from getting out, but can prevent it from getting in. What a useless idea.

And by "automatic classification content filter" they mean "someone manually added the Guardian to a blacklist".

"It's not us, it's the machine that we operate".

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