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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

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The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED
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    Other notorious sites blocked under Education:

    • merriam-webster.com
    • loc.gov (Library of Congress)
    • unf.edu (University of Florida)
    • oceanservice.noaa.gov
    • duckduckgo.com
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      New question, why is duckduckgo in the education category? Are all search engines?

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        That’s a great question and I wish I knew the answer to. Apparently, only DDG got blocked as Education/Science, Startpage was blocked as security.proxy, Bing for no specific reason and several Google variations (.ca, .nl, fr, etc) blocked as “App Defender”.

        The more I look into it, the more I’m left wondering who the fuck created the blocklists. The Social Media category has several instances of sites that are anything but any form of social media or social network

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