Arkiboks Banned!

I haven't been able to visit Arkiboks for a while because I was out of state. You'd think that with the advent of mobile computing and the internet accessing a site from anywhere shouldn't be a problem. Well it was.

I was up in the state of Tennessee and the network I was using was managed by the Tennessee Board of Education. Apparently the Arkiboks site has been blocked because it was deemed inappropriate.

Here's the message that popped up when I tried going to the Arkiboks site:

http://www.arkiboks.blogspot.com/ has been identified as inappropriate and blocked by your Tennessee Department of Education Internet Usage Policy.
Access to web sites that have been identified as providing inappropriate content will be blocked. This determination is based upon various content categories. Content identified as inappropriate includes:

- adult-oriented material,

- extremist-militant material,

- racist or hate-oriented material, and

- incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority (seditious material).

I almost laughed myself to tears when I read the message. It was funny, no doubt about it. On the other hand though, as I eventually gained my composure and gave myself a few seconds to think, you can say that it's a little disturbing as well.

I can only speak for myself but I would like to think that one of the main reasons most people post here in Arkiboks is to share what they know. We might call it something like a system of peer-to-peer education. It is the ultimate irony then for Arkiboks to be deemed inappropriate by an educational institution.

Hopefully it is our thought provoking posts more than our sometimes not so civil decorum in the comments sections that makes us deserving of this unusual distinction.