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11 February 2009 by Victor

Websense is blocking access to Mendeley… dictators around the globe rejoice

Today a user told us that Websense, the internet censorship “content-control” software, hard research life Websense is blocking access to Mendeley... dictators around the globe rejoicehas marked the Mendeley website as “Illegal or Questionable” and blocked access to it. I wonder how that happened?

At least we’re in good company. Websense is blocking access to Amnesty International in many parts of the world (wait… now it makes sense! I’m a member of Amnesty!), and has also been blocking GMail and the MIT website just because they can.

Also, I think their logo exhibits a slightly flawed sense of humour. Yes?

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2 Responses to “Websense is blocking access to Mendeley… dictators around the globe rejoice”

  1. Vivek Sonny Abraham Says:
    February 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    Don’t get sued for libel, guys :) Just show this to a lawyer.

  2. Fergus Gallagher Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    I have websense on my router. They aren’t blocking you for any reason except as “unknown”, therefore potentially harmless. I flagged you for review about a month ago.

    Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe they hate Ossies.