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WarOnGuns Correspondent Henry sends:

A couple months ago, I had occasion to access your blog while I was logged in to some public hotspot (Burger King, the local hospital, I don't remember). I was surprised to be greeted by the [above], which I saved and then didn't come across again until I was cleaning up my files today.

Weapons sales my ass.

When pursued, the actual category appears to be "Websites that feature the legal promotion or sale of weapons such as hand guns, knives, rifles, explosives, etc." Maybe "legal promotion" means you talk about them in anything less than a completely negative manner.

I submitted a reclassification request suggesting you be reclassified as an "advocacy organization." You can do so as well, here.

Thought you'd like to know.

You bet I would.  Having chronicled how major search engines control their news feeds to omit information that doesn't amplify the "progressive" narrative (and then eject what slips through), and how social media blocks off other avenues for spreading the word, it's instructive to see a window I wasn't watching has been boarded up as well.

Curious -- look how they rate a website that talks about guns ad nauseam, but from a different "perspective":

It's not like Michael Bloomberg has news feed troubles, is it?

Fortiguard certainly has an unwarranted high opinion of themselves:

Our researchers scour the cyber landscape daily to discover emerging threats & develop countermeasures to protect more than 320,000 @Fortinet customers globally.

That's some "scouring" I've seen in my first two encounters.

Shall we see what their crack "researchers" say when pointed to reality?  Here's the response Henry received:

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So instead of "weapons sales," they've updated it to "weapons."

Really? Go ahead and "scour" for yourself to see how you do against "professionals" who charge for their "services."

And then there's this bit of hand-washing:

Note that FortiGuard Web Filtering Service categorizes websites, but it is your IT manager who decides what categories to block or allow. Therefore, if you would like access to the site, please contact your IT manager.

The IT Manager is depending on your categorization, dumb-@$$!

I suspect the original designation was due to some anti snitching, but this lame response tells me Fortiguard "researcher" laziness, incompetence and bias let that through without verification and rather than doing the right thing, has shifted this blog to a category that's still likely to be blocked.

UPDATE: The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

That's still not the right catgory, but at least this one is less likely to get blocked by anal retentive wi-fi filters.

Thanks to those who supported this.

Aaand... another Update:

Bugs?