{"id":351,"date":"2007-07-06T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/07\/06\/the-times-of-indias-firewall-policy\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:09:19","slug":"the-times-of-indias-firewall-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/the-times-of-indias-firewall-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times of India&#8217;s Firewall Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homo (of Homo Fighter, Fighter Homo fame) is currently working as a wage slave for the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\">Slimes of India<\/a>. Which, considering the stuff it splashes all over its webpage (and print pages), has a rather bizarre firewall policy. As shown by the GTalk excerpt below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homo: so what have you done so far to help out a person in dire need?<br \/>\n11:40 AM me: Nothing. I am a heartless bastard who kicks kittens<br \/>\n11:41 AM Homo: very well, but remember that god will one day punish you for your sins, disbelieving blasphemist<br \/>\n11:43 AM and, oh, i realised last week that three weeks is all it&#8217;ll take for me to lose my nickname.<br \/>\n11:44 AM me: And why is that?<br \/>\n11:45 AM Homo: courtesy pastor ted haggart.<br \/>\n11:46 AM me: ??<br \/>\nHomo: who sleeps with gay hookers for three years, doped on meth, and then goes in for three weeks of rehab and therapy before proclaiming to the world, &#8220;I&#8217;m heterosexual now!&#8221;<br \/>\noh you haven&#8217;t heard of him? fun story<br \/>\nme: Whatta guy<br \/>\n11:47 AM But your nickname is eternal and independent of sexual orientation<br \/>\nHomo: i&#8217;d google it, but my office bans any mention of &#8220;sex&#8221; in the link, so my search on google news for &#8220;ted haggart&#8221; +heterosexual will be blocked.<br \/>\nme: Let me get this straight<br \/>\n11:48 AM The Times Of India office bans any searches on sex?<br \/>\nBwahahhahahahahahahhahahahah!<br \/>\nHomo: yes.<br \/>\nultimate irony, innit?<br \/>\nme: I am so blogging this<br \/>\nHomo: i&#8217;d blog about it, but, ah well, i work for them.<br \/>\nsure!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In case your firewall isn&#8217;t as restrictive, and you do go Googling, it&#8217;s Ted Haggard and not Haggart. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Haggard\">wiki article<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homo (of Homo Fighter, Fighter Homo fame) is currently working as a wage slave for the Slimes of India. Which, considering the stuff it splashes all over its webpage (and print pages), has a rather bizarre firewall policy. As shown by the GTalk excerpt below: Homo: so what have you done so far to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msm","category-weirder-than-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-5F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}