I’m living with my parents and they use OpenDNS filtering on the wifi. There’s some filtering set up to block, you know, 4chan, porn sites, you know. Which, fair enough on the face of it! And I’m a 20something of the internet generation, I can find other sources or ways around if I want to.
(I’m not affected by other people’s pornposting being banned from tumblr because I never used tumblr for porn in the first place. I’ve always used reddit and imgur and text sites.)
But.
But.
The nudity/pornography categories have a problem where they block specific tumblr blogs. Not tumblr as a whole! I would be miffed at that, but I would acquiesce. No, specific, individual tumblr blogs.
And not the few blogs I would occasionally check in on that were in fact porn, either! Those always came through fine! No, the things being blocked were @queenieofaces, who is the exact opposite of porn. And @vanishinginthepark. And-- gosh, I looked through once. Several other aces, who have never posted an image, people who have never so much as posted a link to description of genitalia.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was finding @straightpeoplereceipts blocked for nudity/pornography. Literally all I wanted to do was check them out to see if they’re cool. I checked on queenie to confirm that this is in fact the same old bullshit.
So since I’m already running a wifi subnet anyways, I just went and changed what DNS it uses. Bypass this bullshit altogether.
