Home Depot!

[guesswho]

Found out something interesting today at my local Home Dept.  I was looking for a counter bore for 6-48 screws.  I was unsure of the angle and decided to search the internet on my phone.  The first several hits were gun sites.  Every one of them was blocked!  I thought what the hell.  Looked at my phone and it was picking up on Home Depot's website.  I turned the Wifi off and immediately got into each of the sites.  Apparently they block gun sites on their Wifi.  I had no idea.  I asked the floor guy if they were anti 2nd amendment.  He asked why and I told him.  He said he had no idea that they blocked them.  I also told him I bet if I wanted to find me a Boyfriend I could pull those sites right up.  I did ask him to talk to his manager and find out what the deal was, and the next time I'm in there I was going to ask him what he found out.  I don't know if it's just local or if it's their corporate policy.   

Any one have any idea or experience?  Next time your in your local HD try to pull up a gun site.  I'm just curious if it's a local choice.     

[Gooserbat]

Interesting

[Dr Juice]

I would not be surprised if that's the case for me because I live in a bleeding heart liberal city where criminals are portrayed as victims some of the times.


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[Dearhunter3450]

When I work overtime at my county courthouse I can't access firearms for sale type websites nor can I play Simpsons Tap Out. I'm not sure who Homer pissed off in the court system lol!

[OldSchool]

I have no idea, but I'm interested to hear what you find. Please keep us posted. I'll look into it here and If that's the case they won't get any more of my business.

Bob

[mgm1955]

Im betting it's a corporate policy. You're right you could probably have logged into all kinds of offensive sites, but not those protected by the 2nd amendment. Very sad!!

[GobbleNut]

The obvious question is whether they are blocking access to all sites not related to their store and the products they sell.  It could very well be that they do that to keep their employees from dilly-dallying on the internet while they are supposed to be working.  ....Just a thought.

[Old Gobbler]

They probably have all thier stores running  trough one giant sever in a home office

It's common practice for work site servers to block "adult" xrated  content , and I can gauruntee they monitor their employees for abuse of it , but the gun stuff is bs

[BowBendr]

14 year Home Depot employee....yes, it is a corporate policy. Its a standard filter that hits on key words or names. Blocks quite a bit actually, not just guns and porn. It doesn't block OG, even though there is tons of gun talk here. Just keys in on search words used.


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[guesswho]

I had no idea.   First time I ever run into that. 

[Smooth_Operator]

It is the same for most large companies, and it's not intended to block customers per se, more so for employees. As was already mentioned, the same filters that Home Depot runs are more than likely the same ones used by all big companies to deter employees from looking at certain sites. My best guess is they do it for liability concerns...but maybe someone else might know differently...

[tha bugman]

WOW

[cracker4112]

Though not a large company, my IT has a filter just like that.  In our case its to keep someone from accidentally downloading a virus to our corp server which is all too common with the porn and e-commerce sites...

[BowBendr]

^^ Exactly ^^


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[Gobspur]

Crazy.  On my Department of Defense computer I have some pretty extreme computer protection programs.  But I can access gun sites, gunbroker for example.  Gotta love our government...