Gmail was blocked, ages ago - and along with it, gchat - but, with google widgety things on the google homepage I could, at least, still view my inbox (the 10 most recent emails received, which is better than nothing).
Then, they blocked twitter.
Today, however, when I signed into my personalized google homepage (with Batman theme!) the gmail widget was blocked! Unbelievable.
I can't even read the subject line of the first ten emails in my inbox anymore!
And when I mentioned it to a coworker they informed me that youtube is also blocked! And not the homepage, either. Get this: You can access youtube.com and you can type a query into the search bar, and search, and view search results, but, if you click on a video to watch any of your results, BAM! BLOCKED!
due to
not kidding
"violence"
Which, maaaaybe makes sense for the NFL video the coworker was trying to watch (not really, it was Michael Vick's press conference, but it could be all NFL=violence)
it does NOT make sense for the next video he tried to pull up: THESE ADORABLE KITTENS!
which I can't embed because the access through youtube is blocked.
Google video is still available, which is why I can post this
[brief aside: Every one of the crazy protestors should have been handled in this same way. Testament to the first amendment, indeed!]
In conclusion: I fear it is only a matter of time before igoogle itself is blocked, and then, most worryingly, google reader. And after that? Who knows.
Which sucks, because this is not the economic climate I want to be in while looking for a new job.
-t
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