Today in hilarious meta-news, Jezebel has learned that our website is evidently too hot to be viewed by select U.S. government employees. A tipster tells us that the DOJ recently blocked access to Jezebel from all workstation computers, although the other Gawker Media sites — Sportsball, that one about cars, Sidepiece Weekly— remain accessible. Here’s a picture:
The problem, apparently, is either that we are an entertainment website or that we are an “Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit” forum. (Does the DOJ know how frequently we blog while not wearing pants? How deep does this thing go?)
The tipster tell us that Jezebel was accessible from DOJ IP addresses as recently as December and that our site appears to have been blocked sometime in the past two weeks.
“Oddly enough, all other Kinja resources remain available,” they add. “I wonder why a feminist blog would be disabled while Deadspin, Gawker, Kotaku, etc. remain available?”