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cool find!

This is really interesting. I haven't heard of anything like it except in the poker world.

Can't wait to see if other travel employees are experiencing this.

Thanks,
Jen

Here is how we found this...

I found this in our refer logs a couple times this morning:

http://209.87.123.31:15871/cgi-bin/moreBlockInfo.cgi?ws-encdata=d3MlMkRzZXNzaW9uPTU3MjgzMjkxMCZ3cyUy RHVzZXJpcD0xMCUyRTEyMiUyRTE3MyUyRTE0OSZ3cyUyRGNhdD0xMTImd3MlMkRyZWFzb249MTA1NA==

We looked up the IP on who is and sure enough:

http://ws.arin.net/whois/

OrgName:    United Airlines
OrgID:      UNITED-3
Address:    1375 E. Woodfield Rd.
Address:    Suite 300
City:       Schaumburg
StateProv:  IL
PostalCode: 60173
Country:    US

NetRange:   209.87.112.0 - 209.87.127.255
CIDR:       209.87.112.0/20
NetName:    ULS-1BLK
NetHandle:  NET-209-87-112-0-1
Parent:     NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Assignment
NameServer: DNS01.ULS-PROD.COM
NameServer: DNS02.ULS-PROD.COM
Comment:    
RegDate:    2002-07-29
Updated:    2006-06-19

OrgTechHandle: JLA98-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Anderson, Julie L.
OrgTechPhone:  +1-847-969-8150
OrgTechEmail:  hostinfo@ualloyalty.com

The session is now timed out. So you can't see the graphic on the page we saw earlier.  My guess, it could have easily been an intranet that blocks not only Jaunted, but all outside sites.  However, United could, like some hotel networks do, decide which sites to "ban" their employees from seeing.  Hard to imagine United would ban the entire web from their employees.

hilarious

Blocking websites is so 1997. Any United employee who wanted to keep up with Jaunted could just subscribe to the RSS feed in something like Google Reader.

And geez, United, I've spared countless hours in delays at O'Hare, you could give your employees 15 minutes of web diversion.

censorship?

I'm deeply concerned that this is being done on a much larger scale by travel companies who don't want their employees reading information that may be critical of that challenge their corporate worldview. I'd be interested if there are any United employees (or for that matter, any other employees of travel companies) who can't access Jaunted or similar sites. Full disclosure: I happen to publish one of those other sites. Anyone care to chime in?

We'd love to hear about it too...

We'll keep you anonymous if you want to tell us about this kind of censorship. Send as many details as you can--screen captures are key--to tips@jaunted.com. Or, as always, you can post a comment here!

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Or...

...they may just be keeping their employees from wasting their time at work (as valuable as I'm sure you think your site is).

Also keep in mind that filtering software (legitimately used by thousands of corporations to block porn and offensive sites) is not an exact science. So they may not be explicitly "censoring" this site -- although that probably makes you feel more important.

I work for United

I accessed Jaunted.com both thru Google Reader and directly to the website today, from work. Sometimes the
filter will catch websites with things like "blog" in the URL.