UPDATE: This was, of course, an April Fools joke. 
The infamous anonymous CBC blog The Teamakers is being blocked by the CBC’s Websense filtering system. The Teamakers site was started during the 2005 lockout and is penned by an anonymous manager.
Contacted by email, the author, who goes by the name ‘Ouimet,’ told InsideTheCBC.com,”This is outrageous. I recommend you email your supervisor and request that my web site be un-blocked by this draconian regime.”
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A gem.
Serves her right.
This is a travesty. Teamakers flagged as tasteless? It clearly should be in the ‘Adult, swimsuit’ category.
Funny how I am blocked at home too!
How sad! Anonymous, critical, or otherwise I will never understand corporate blocking of any site. Would this effect people who wanted to research the site for a story? If so, talk about crippling yourself. Sure you can request access via your manager but what a hassle that is.
Employees should be encouraged to police their own activities and if you spend to much time on the internet and not enough time doing your job, like any other enterprise you should be dealt with. “Filtering” any access in an organization like the CBC draconian and is a throw back to an old world business model.
Um…April Fool, right?
Smells like April Fools to me.
Ha funny. I guess ‘We are all CBC and so can you!’ since this message shows for all visitors to the page, including those outside the CBC network.
Um…note the URL when you see the Websense page.
(CBC Technology has confirmed they did not block Tea Makers.)
We got “got.” Happy April Fool’s Day!
Tasteless? I don’t think so. If they had a filter for “Uncomfortable to the approved mindset” then, maybe.
This in indeed sad. Sorry, but this site is becoming more and more like just another page in iO (which they Still send us countless emails about). Teamalers is a good bridge between corps-speak and the “outside” world.
Even Hubert read it.
Even CBC interviewed “Ouimet”
Yes, I will contact my Supervisor, but he’s a fan as well, so that may be redundant.
FYI, only checked it during lunch (as with this site).
I am confident that a mirror or alternative will find its way into our Fortress, like water into rock.
They really don’t have a Clue, do they?
That blocked message is obviously a April’s Fool prank. If you look closely, it isn’t the same as a regular blocked website message.
Tea Maker got yah!
Just sign up to bloglines.com and paste in the feed. It reads the site without actually visitng it:
http://www.bloglines.com
http://teamakers.blogspot.com/rss.xml
How can CBC block a Blogspot site?
Teamakers can’t be accessed through my residential ISP either… how is that technically possible? Perhaps this is just satire?
The CBC has a “Websense filtering system?” Why?
Check your calendar
Hmm - interesting that it’s April fool’s day, and the URL is still the Tea Maker’s.
John
um. april fool’s….anyone?
This is ridiculous and embarrassing for the CBC.
Who is getting paid public dollars to make these decisions of “taste” on behalf of the Canadian public?
Perhaps it explains a lot of the mediocrity coming from CBC radio of late.
And is the AirFarce crash also an April 1 only story?
Sounds real enough.
And shouldn’t comments below be closed at noon local time, according to April Fool tradition?
And is the AirFarce crash also an April 1 only story?
Sounds real enough.
And shouldn’t comments below be closed at noon local time, according to April Fool tradition?
And the notice isn’t really in good French, written in Toronto?
Oh.
April Fool’s?
gullible /ˈgʌləbəl/ –adjective
Easily deceived or cheated.
CBC must have an amazing filtering system because it’s filtering it to the rest of the Internet as well.
April 1st perhaps?
The site is showing as “blocked” outside of CBC’s network. So in other words, I’m guessing that whoever runs the site did it.
It’s not blocked, it’s an April fools joke.
I’m getting exactly the same error message, and I’m definitely not browsing on the CBC network, unless my University is owned by the CBC.
Just to let you all know, gullible isn’t in the dictionary…
Go look it up if you don’t believe me
Uh, I’m outside the CBC network and I’m seeing the same message. I don’t think this is really being blocked by the CBC.
(Note the date…)
What day is it today?
What’s curious to me is that I access Teamakers from outside the CBC.
It too is blocked by Websense.
April Fool!
Is this not just an April Fool’s joke from Ouimet?
Check the URL, it is actually the teamakers’ site, not a referal to some sort of websense site like you would get with a genuine blockage.
The CBC has a “Websense filtering system?” Why?
Because if the CMG can get a guy reinstated after he tries to poison a local politician, then people can feel pretty secure surfing donkey pr0n in work.
I totally bought it. What a great April fools.
ummmm…is this supposed to be an april fools day joke…the actual website itself is the “WEBSENSE” error
Um, happy April 1st.
(Hint: if you surf there from outside the CBC intranet — say, from home — you will see the same message, with the same logo.
Second hint: your home Internet provider does not run a CBC filter.)
Why doesn’t that so-called “Websense” page carry the generic “Options” box that tells you how to view the page if you think you’ve been done wrong?
Why doesn’t the blue bar at the top of page carry the words “Blocked by Websense”?
How come Ouimet’s “Link Farm” hasn’t been blocked too?
What’s today’s date?
Savvy journalists?
Oi
My workplace has the same filtering system and I laughed when I reached my first “tasteless” site the other day. I also tried to visit a gay news site and it said it was blocked because of the “websense category gay/lesbian interest.” So far, no straight interest sites have been blocked.
This reminds me of measures used by the authorities in Abu Dhabi where I published a blog by journalism students at The American University of Sharjah. The blog was, occasionally, critical of the state and often critical of the politics of the Gulf region. Despite this, it was never blocked by Etisalat, the state run telecom which filters many, many sites it deems innappropriate.
oh well, another cbc inspired program cancelled ;^)
ps i can understand airfarce though - not funny…
Just wondering why I can’t read Teamaker at home???
uh, april fool’s anyone?
And can anyone tell me why I can’t get on to the tea makers site from my home computer? I’m getting the CBC has blocked access message. How can the CBC block access from my home computer?
In all seriousness, I was browsing HTML and CSS-related resources today because they pertain to my job, and one web design site has been blocked under the “weapons” category.
Anyone else go so far as to write an angry e-mail to his/her manager on the evils of censorship?
Retract! Retract!