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So she writes a very reasoned explanation of this, only to have her entirely-not-inappropriate reasoned discussion blocked by overzealous corporate proxy server

• AnthonyMouse 12y ago
  The ad and the nature of the site is obviously the reason the page is blocked. But the page is still blocked. If you mean to argue that this isn't a false positive, I disagree. It's just an extraordinarily hard false positive to avoid. The post and the ad shown contain no pornography but they're about pornography and other content from the same source might. None of the filters are that granular. And that's the problem. Nobody's boss has any justifiable reason to allow their employees to read HN but not the post in question, but the burden of false positives doesn't fall predominantly on the company with the filter or even its employees. It's a negative externality that harms the author of the blocked content even though she has no ability to fix the filter. So filters with false positives are a bug and anti-filtering proxies like Tor are the patch. Which is why everyone benefits when they're more widely deployed.