Jury Duty Network Filtering Craziness

I’m in jury duty this week for the fine city of New York, or the fine county, or the fine state. I can’t tell. I’m proud to serve some government entity named New York. All the jury waiting rooms have free wireless internet access. That might seem like a standard perk, but in the court buildings, which have all the modern styling of a ’65 Corvair, it was a surprise nonetheless. Yet web content downloaded via said Wi-Fi is filtered according to capricious rules. One seemingly forbidden term is “games”: Almost any URL that contains the word “game” or might contain gaming content is redirects you to the New York Court System site without explanation. The Metacritic home page is fine, but click on the “Games” section and you’re right back to CourtHelp . Yesterday, I happened to have an urgent need to look at the video game industry’s release schedules for September, so this limitation proved very frustrati...