Is it just me, or does filtering like this sound like a horrible idea? Actually looking at HTTP connections and not routing those that violate whatever the policy is sounds like a much better solution than politely asking the browser to refuse to load a certain site.

Rule of thumb: if I can get around your filtering with telnet to port 80, it's broken.

Solution: don't do that ;-)

More seriously: I don't know what all the "don't post embarassing pictures of yourself on the internet, potential employers might find them" crap is about. Facebook hides pretty much everything by default, so unless you're retarded enough to select an embarassing picture as the default one, or retarded enough to accept every friend request you get, it's not an issue.

Of course, as you said, then you have to deal with the *other* idiots out there that don't realize this. You just have to hope they're the same idiots that can't find the privacy settings.

... so, anyone got a nuke we can lob at the datacenter? That should solve it :D

Google may be big and powerful, and I can't say I like all their products, but they don't go through our Gmail accounts and censor stuff they don't agree with. For that Google wins.