A lot of the time sites get blocked because the filter being used is a commercial product that has whatever site it is on the default block list. Gun sites usually wind up on these default lists. I've seen ar15.com blocked more than once, as well as some of the firearms parts sites Ive bought from (BCM, Brownells).
My university didn't block anything the whole time I was there, 2016-2020.
True. Lots of software is programmed and designed to block certain websites, designed and coded by programmers to block certain sites based on what they were told to block, not realizing the reasons for why they were blocked, or who told them to block it, or their motivations.
A lot of the time sites get blocked because the filter being used is a commercial product that has whatever site it is on the default block list. Gun sites usually wind up on these default lists. I've seen ar15.com blocked more than once, as well as some of the firearms parts sites Ive bought from (BCM, Brownells).
My university didn't block anything the whole time I was there, 2016-2020.
True. Lots of software is programmed and designed to block certain websites, designed and coded by programmers to block certain sites based on what they were told to block, not realizing the reasons for why they were blocked, or who told them to block it, or their motivations.