March 19, 2009 12:50 PM
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Morgan Stanley's Censors Block Access to Top Financial Site
(MoneyWatch)
"The truth shall set you free," the Bible informs us, but somebody better inform the censors over at Morgan Stanley, who are allegedly blocking some of the best content available online for dissecting the financial crisis-- The Baseline Scenario --from appearing on its corporate site.
Any website owner has the right to block any content, of course, so here are Morgan's official guidelines for the 23 types of content to be blocked:
Thanks once again to Erik Sherman, my Bnet colleague and most excellent tip-sender from the Eastern timezone!
"The truth shall set you free," the Bible informs us, but somebody better inform the censors over at Morgan Stanley, who are allegedly blocking some of the best content available online for dissecting the financial crisis-- The Baseline Scenario --from appearing on its corporate site.
Any website owner has the right to block any content, of course, so here are Morgan's official guidelines for the 23 types of content to be blocked:
- Abused Drugs
- Adult Material
- Freeware and Software Download
- Gambling
- Hacking
- Illegal or Questionable
- Instant Messaging Internet Communication
- Keyloggers
- Malicious Web Sites
- Military & Extremist
- Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- Personal Network Storage and Backup
- Personals and Dating
- Phishing & Other Frauds
- Proxy Avoidance
- Racism & Hate
- Social Networking and Personal Sites
- Spyware
- Tasteless
- URL Translation Sites
- Violence
- Web Chat
- Web-based Email
Thanks once again to Erik Sherman, my Bnet colleague and most excellent tip-sender from the Eastern timezone!
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