N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27
Ah, the existential despair of not being able to read an article about mythical beasts 🙃! Apparently, MIT Press has decided that some monsters are too sacred 🤖 for the plebeian eyes of the internet. "Access Denied" – a modern epic of digital gatekeeping! 🚫🦄
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/ #mythicalbeasts #digitalgatekeeping #accessdenied #MITSacred #monstersofinternet #HackerNews #ngated
Khürt WilliamsMay 8

Bubbles and Gatekeeping

Curated online spaces feel like relief—but hand-picking who gets in is still gatekeeping, just with a human face.

https://islandinthenet.com/bubbles-and-gatekeeping/

Bubbles and Gatekeeping - Island in the Net

Curated online spaces feel like relief—but hand-picking who gets in is still gatekeeping, just with a human face.

Island in the Net
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 9
Oh, the irony! 💀 An article on Africa's economy blocked by the digital gatekeeping of #JavaScript and #cookies. Just what we needed—one more way to keep the funeral procession of information from moving forward. 🚫🥳
https://davidoks.blog/p/how-funerals-keep-africa-poor #digitalgatekeeping #informationaccess #AfricaEconomy #irony #HackerNews #ngated
How funerals keep Africa poor

Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead

David Oks
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 25, 2025
Ah, nothing like a little tech elitism to brighten your day! 😏 So, you tried to access a blog with a "too generic" UserAgent? 🚫 Good luck navigating the labyrinth of arbitrary rules set by this digital gatekeeper. Pro tip: next time, just hack into the Matrix for exclusive access. 😜
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunMoreExtraNetworkFiber #techelitism #digitalgatekeeping #useragent #hackingthematrix #blogaccess #navigatetherules #HackerNews #ngated
Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/RunMoreExtraNetworkFiber

Woozle HypertwinSep 11, 2024

So, like, I've been complaining for awhile that #Gmail has been getting increasingly gatekeepery about letting messages through, right?

I sent a message (from my self-hosted email server) to someone a couple of days ago and never heard back, so this morning I went into Gmail to resend (forward from me to Gmail, then from Gmail to them) it, as one does, and I happened to notice that one of the messages in my Gmail spam folder was a message from "[email protected]".

Google spammed one of its own internally-generated messages.

For me, this kind of moves it from the category of "perhaps excessive but nonetheless extremely diligent spam-filtering" to "we don't actually know WTF we're doing; turn up the dials on the security theatre so nobody notices".

#digitalGatekeeping #customerLockIn