On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 17:35, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not the best of sources but perhaps something we should look into:

In my experience (local gov web manager, 1994-2011), such filtering
is, as Fae says, usually a "bought in" service, applied at a broad
topic level.

Local block/pass listing may be applied, but the defaults usually come
from the provider - for my council that was a US-based company

I've FOI'd the details:

   https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wikipedia_pages_bocked_by_firewa

and asked on Twitter (and Facebook) for reports of who and what else,
if anyone/anything, is affected:

   https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1138885984899276800

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