Software-savvy Walter Olson, who publishes Overlawyered.com and Pointoflaw.com, provides a persuasive explanation of why the RI State Court Law Library may be blocking this blog. I contacted Olson last night and here's his response:
"I have had a couple of transient episodes in which some blocking programs excluded Overlawyered. I think in one case I'd been posting about a sexual harassment case, and in the other about legal issues involving guns. In both cases the blocking ended when the story in question moved off the front page.
"It is my impression that not only are there many different blocking programs in use, but that the programs may be customized, e.g. one user may set it on 'block' when just one sexually oriented word appears on the page, another may decide that the trigger should be four words."
The answer may then be obvious. Since THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH broke the alleged sexual harassment story at the Office of the Attorney General, I have been blogging multiple times a day about aspects of that saga. When, as Olson says, "the story in question moves off the front page" the blocking in the RI state court house might stop.
I want to thank Walter Olson and lead paint watchers who provided possible insight into this issue. It's a bit of a letdown that this blogging is not all that influential that any powers-that-be would seek to block it.
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