Joe’s Amazing Technicolor Weblog

The entirety of an email from the customer service email address of a company I just placed an order with:

Parts of this item were removed by GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP because they breached the security policy of the sending email server.

Threat report
text/plain	Words in body triggered rule “CONTENT POLICY: Block Outband Profanities” (Words found: slag)

I could have sworn the whole Net Neutrality thing was taken care of last year, but it looks like I wasn’t paying enough attention — AT&T, etc. are still conspiring to transform the Internet into a crippled, pay-to-play service for distributing approved content to consumers.

Fortunately Free Press is coordinating a ton of comments to the FCC, and has a dandy site of them. For example, a quick scan of Boston-area comments showed this one from local educator Kevin Driscoll. Thus inspired, I’ve added my own, and I’ll bet a bunch of you out there have dandy stories of your own. It’s pretty fun seeing your name, title, and town rendered in fake handwriting font after all.