The Inquirer's John Gonzalez had an interesting little note today... He noticed that the Eagles block certain websites from being accessed in the press box at the Linc.
Unlike many organizations, the Eagles apparently don't trust the media to make responsible decisions with the Internet service provided in the Linc's press box. Perhaps to save us from ourselves, they employ a filter that precludes journalists from viewing a shocking assortment of Web sites. How Orwellian of them.
Naturally, all gambling and pornography pages are barred. No surprise there (though it's a touch disappointing). Curiously, the media are also prevented from accessing a staggering number of entirely reputable or innocuous sites.
Slate, Politico and The Nation are prohibited. Deadspin, Kissing Suzy Kolber and The Big Lead are all banned. Bleeding Green Nation is forbidden, and Top 100 Bloggers (which merely links to a number of blogs) is also off-limits. A few other sites that have been deemed verboten by the Eagles' manipulation machine: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Google Finance, Gawker and AOL Instant Messenger.
Well, at least I know no members of the press will be stealing any of my brilliants post game analysis... lol
Seriously though... really Eagles? Really? I would hope that this is just the work of some automated filtering program...