A reader reports his firm has blocked Internet access to BaselineScenario.com, and his requests to change this policy have so far gone unheeded.

Access to our site has been blocked in the past by China – for reasons that should be obvious (if you want to pretend there is no global crisis). But what kind of firm would not want its employees to access our macroeconomic analysis, Financial Crisis for Beginners, or your continuing debate about how to handle the world’s myriad financial sector problems?

Oh, yes…

Morgan Stanley.

No doubt there is a simple and reasonable explanation that has nothing to do with our views on banks, their executives, and the political power of the financial sector. And it must be pure coincidence that Morgan Stanley was mentioned in a less than completely positive light during my February interview with Bill Moyers.

Other websites and blogs are routinely blocked by Morgan Stanley, and it surely makes sense for any firm to be careful about what its employees can look at during working hours or over the corporate network. Still, here are the categories of sites that the firm explicitly blocks – which one includes us (or your comments)?

Abused Drugs

Adult Material

Freeware and Software Download

Gambling

Hacking

Illegal or Questionable

Instant Messaging Internet Communication

Keyloggers

Malicious Web Sites

Military & Extremist

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

Personal Network Storage and Backup

Personals and Dating

Phishing & Other Frauds

Proxy Avoidance

Racism & Hate

Social Networking and Personal Sites

Spyware

Tasteless

URL Translation Sites

Violence

Web Chat

Web-based Email

Update: This is James. In the interests of fairness to Morgan Stanley . . . There is one comment below from a Morgan Stanley employee who says that access to this blog is intermittent. There is also another comment from an MS employee on Seeking Alpha’s rebroadcast of this post saying that he or she can read the site. So it’s not clear if the blocking is according to policy or is some sort of IT glitch.