Here's a screengrab of NASA's in-house censorware blocking Wikipedia as a pornography site. Link (Thanks, Jennifer)
Update: jwf says,
NASA's censorware was blocking wikipedia.com, not wikipedia.org. The .com site is indeed pornographic.
Censorware follies #umptybillion: at NASA, Wikipedia = porn
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