Hit 200 blocked articles in my feed reader last month - not a single one made it past my ISP's filter

I keep a folder of links that get blocked by my provider. Last month I hit 200 saved articles. Most were local news about water testing results near a fracking site in Pennsylvania. Another 40 were about a small-town school board meeting in Ohio where they debated library books. My ISP claims they only block illegal content but somehow these all got flagged. I've been checking with a friend overseas who can pull them up no problem. Kind of makes me wonder what else is getting caught in that filter. Anyone else keeping a list of what disappears from their feeds?

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jake1917d ago

That's a pretty revealing list you've got there. Makes you stop and think about how much control these companies really have when they start blocking local water testing results of all things. Maybe your ISP's "illegal content" filter has a lot more to do with politics than they'd like to admit. Seems like every day there's another story about something getting scrubbed that nobody in their right mind would call illegal. The school board meeting stuff is especially disturbing since that's literally just public record.

tessa_kelly7d ago

Started tallying my own list after noticing a bunch of gardening blogs kept vanishing from my feed. Turned out they were all discussing non-GMO seed swaps and a local county ban on certain pesticides. My ISP claimed it was a glitch but @jake191 has a point about these filters looking suspicious. The water testing results thing really gets me, like are they scared people will actually read the data and ask questions? Just strange how public info keeps getting caught in the net while actual illegal stuff probably sails right through.