A lawyer at a firm that shall remain nameless, to hide their shame, told Geeklawyer that the lawyers there are unable to read this blog at work because it is blocked by the firm’s web filtering software due to the ‘high level of swearing‘. Grounds for moving en masse to Clifford Chance. Well, maybe it’s not that bad.
Geeklawyer is unaware of which system is in use at his reader’s firm but he’d be interested to hear whether any other readers are having the same issue (he assumes that they read this blog at home or on their snazzy smartphone or they wouldn’t know of the question and .. well … you know: just thought it needed saying before some smartarse pointed that out).
Geeklawyer understands the need for using dogshit filtering software like SurfControl et al and indeed he recommends it to his punters as part of a conservative policy of best Internet practice. His personal preference is for the use of no filtering at all except in very limited circumstances such as schools. This view is reinforced by the often technically incompetent state of filtering software (blocking cancer awareness pages because they use the word ‘breast’ !!) as well as the arbitrary power it gives to jobsworth IT managers.
For the afflicted Geeklawyer recommends the use of a web proxy such as anonymizer.com or the Google cache.
And Geeklawyer will, from now on, engage in less vulgar and immoderate language.
In a parallel fucking Universe …
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