Best Buy bans Logos website!

I went to Best Buy to purchase the new Motorola Xoom yesterday, in great anticipation of Logo's Android app. The first thing I did on the display Xoom at Best Buy was type in library.logos.com to see how my favorite books would display. When I did so, I received an message saying that I was attempting to access restricted site due to the content of the site being categorized as "religious". I couldn't believe it!! Best Buy has all sorts of objectionable videos playing on their machines. You can run any U-Tube video you want on them! And yet when I want to look up a resource on Logos, I find they won't allow it, as if anything that is religious is inherently evil. I am still in shock over this!

I left Best Buy and bought the Xoom from Verizon instead.

(LOGOS, please hurry with that Android app!)

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Mark Barnes

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/19312/145673.aspx

David Wilson

I received an message saying that I was attempting to access restricted site due to the content of the site being categorized as "religious".

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I would suggest a number of emails from Forum users via to Best Buy Customer service via the Best Buy web site describing this experience and asking if this is intentional Best Buy policy and if so asking for an explanation. If they fail to respond or respond inappropriately with no action to rectify then we will all know to do business elsewhere. My email is already in to Bestbuy.ca

Michael Anda

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224756#Comment_224756

Same experience here.

Donnie Hale

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224728#Comment_224728

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/19312/145673.aspx

Your memory is as prodigious as your posting volume!

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224780#Comment_224780

Your memory is as prodigious as your posting volume!

My wife will tell you I have a highly selective memory!

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224783#Comment_224783

My wife will tell you I have a highly selective memory!

But that does not make you stand out from any other husband. Of course, that may be a good thing. [:)]

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224783#Comment_224783

My wife will tell you I have a highly selective memory!

Is your wife a redhead? Mine says the same thing about me. I can't imagine where she ever got such an idea. [8-|]

Chris D. Mallea

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224804#Comment_224804

An an IT Director I'm intimately familiar with this message. It is coming from their firewall. Watchguard firewalls, of which I am the most familiar, uses a service called "Web Blocker" that has several categories of sites that can be blacklisted (on the "bad" list).

Sites that deal with gambling, sex, religion, alcohol, racism, sports, and several other categories are able to be blocked by simply checking a box inside the operating system of the firewall. Most likely all the switches are thrown on the categories available, in an attempt to protect the company.

The firewall refers to a database that lists thousands of websites that fall into a particular category. When you try to goto a website, the firewall first checks against it's DB to see if the site is blacklisted there and if not, you are allowed to goto the site. All this happens behind the scenes so the user never sees it.

Unfortunately good sites can be blocked along with the bad. Exceptions can be easily put into place in the HTTP Proxy/Web Blocker function. However, getting a company to allow an exception for a single site isn't going to happen, especially with the site requested (religious) and the fact your visit there is transitory at best.

Now that I'm done glazing everyone's eyes over..........

chris

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225341#Comment_225341

Now that I'm done glazing everyone's eyes over..........

I thought you explained the situation clearly. Unless Apple should suddenly close all its NC stores, I would not purchase from Best Buy anyway.

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225374#Comment_225374

I still can't think of a reason to visit Best Buy anymore anyway, but now I have a better explanation.

David Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/225341#Comment_225341

Thanks for the explanation Chris, much appreciated.

Nevertheless the bottom line is that the blocking is optional and therfore intentional Best Buy policy.

I fully agree with you that it is most likely they would make Logos an exception to their "political agenda" (long form for "policy").

Personally, I consider atheism to be a religion, and I am more than a little fed up with atheists pushing their religion and demanding that it be the only one officially accepted by the public. One of the few things that annoys me even more is that they seem to have persuaded many christians to let them get away with it unchallenged.

In this specific case, Best Buy appear to have intentionally blocked the capability to test the technology with the application which would be the key decision maker on whether or not a particular mobile device makes the grade or not. The decision by Best Buy to block Logos.com, whether by category or individually, therefore takes them off my approved vendors list.

Icarus38376

How do you like the Xoom? What prompted you to purchase the Xoom over iPad/iPad 2? You must be really confident in a sson to arrive logos app.