I've been on the Intertubes long enough to have heard this story many times. Readers, share with us your own experience, we want to know if it's typical. I'm protecting the innocent and blanking a few details for the sake of privacy:

I went to a very respectable public school today. Had to wait for someone important to come see me while I sat alone - unsupervised, unverified but, I was detected for metal - with the kiddies. Surfed the web. Thought I would check out the Mighty Corrente Building. To my surprise - access denied! [so and so] Public Schools and Microsoft: A PC on every desktop and every one running Microsoft.

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[Corrente] is banned out of the [so and so] public school system too. Actually I tried a
good number of lefty sites and the only one I could get through to was,
iirc, Juan Cole.

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Just a note: a person close to me has a government/military job on
the east coast. Though he can view the Drudge Report at work,
Correntewire is blocked.

So far, I'm still able to access my own frakking website via the Free Internets. What about you? Who is 'approved' and who is banned? What do you know about the software corporations use to "filter" content? I'm curious, because I love my foil hat and I'm fairly sure that a Republican (or more than one) is in charge of the project to create the software that bans sites from the workplace. Am I wrong?

I've also read that Blogger is banned in China, and elsewhere. Will Drupal be next? How effective is this sort of thing? Tell us your thoughts.