An Outpost client's site that covers the LGBTQ+ community was blocked by CUNY's J-School's web filtering service, which said it was some scam/adware site.
CUNY IT refused to explain.
But since it's a public university, I filed a Freedom of Information request to figure out what tool they used.
It was Palo Alto Networks filtering and I found there's an online site to test URLs and request reclassification.
https://urlfiltering.paloaltonetworks.com/
Problem solved, no thanks to the IT dept
Public records FTW
Ryan Singel /
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2024-03-27 05:25:26
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2024-03-27 05:25:26Event JSON
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