Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site'

An anonymous reader writes "The FSF slammed Microsoft for categorizing donate.fsf.org website as a 'Gambling Site.' Corporate systems that use a Microsoft 'network security' program cannot access FSF donation website because of this and as a result, many people were unable to make donations. FSF has submitted a correction to Microsoft and they are now waiting for a response. However, John Sullivan warned corporate about Microsoft's proprietary network security programs."

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donate.fsf.org is just a redirect

[xiando]

You can go directly to http://my.fsf.org/donate/ if donate.fsf.org is blocked by your local friendly firewall. You can also use Tor to bypass blocks like these.

Re:Microsoft is the bad guy, how exactly?

[betterunixthanunix]

Why is everyone so paranoid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Even if they don't allow it, maybe they would rather their employees donated in their own free time and not on their network?

You could at least read and understand the summary (RAUTFS?). It is not just Microsoft's own network; this is something a Microsoft product that is used on numerous corporate networks is doing.