Reportedly, a large US government institution blocked the access to news.ycombinator.com today.<p>Apparently, the HN site was identified as either a security threat or inappropriate for the government.<p>Does anyone know anything about it? What are your thoughts?<p>Is this as trivial as someone being confused by the word 'Hacker' in the page title?<p>FWIW, other sites such as slashdot, reddit, digg are accessible.
Someone mentioned Websense just blocked HN, presumably based on the name:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=444958" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=444958</a><p>Maybe they're using their filter.<p>(Incidentally, I just passively used the new Webmynd search to find that link. I searched Google to find out about Websense. Then I decided I'd better include the link to the HN post in this comment. I was about to search for it, but it was already sitting there as the top HN result for the search I'd just done on Google.)