Last week, I learned that access to Route 66 News on federal and state computers in New Mexico was being blocked.
Naturally, this got my paranoia up a bit. Did my support of Asian-American motel owners raise the ire of an overzealous employee of the Department of Homeland Security? Was someone in the government offended by my criticisms of ill-advised commercial development at the expense of Mother Road history?
It turns it it was none of those things. No, the culprit appears to be an innocuous story about a Route 66 bridge in Carthage, Mo. The 1920 bridge had several nicknames from locals, including Tickle Tummy Hill (because the steep drop-off would cause a fluttering in your innards).
Apparently the state and federal servers flagged “Tickle Tummy” as possible porn and subsequently blocked all access to Route 66 News. This kept state and federal employees — including those from the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program — from surfing to the site for the latest Route 66 news.
If you encounter such problems, call your IT personnel and ask them to allow access to Route 66 News. In return, I pledge to keep any porn from being displayed on Route 66 News — not that there has been anyway.
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Did you experience any problems after your entries on the world’s largest Kit-Kat clock? I did.
If there’s been a problem, nobody’s told me.