Is Pizza Hut Anti-Christian?

Seems like a strange question to ask, does it not?  Yet if one were to visit the Pizza Huts in my immediate area, you might very well get that impression if using their Wi-Fi network to surf the internet.

There's a lot to like about Pizza Hut.  Generally speaking they make good pizza at a fair price.  The staff is usually quite friendly and they have an offering called "The Dinner Box" which, in my opinion, is one of the best food bargains around.  Back in the mid-1980s, in rural Iowa, Pizza Hut was the first major food chain to move into many of the smaller communities.  I really appreciated their presence in Belle Plaine, where I was living at the time.

For now, my visits to Pizza Hut have ended.  Currently I live in the Huntsville Alabama area.  I've recently discovered that at two nearby Pizza Huts, nearly all Catholic and Christian websites are being blocked on their guest Wi-Fi networks.  Many of these websites are considered to be among the very best resources for Catholics and all Christians.  I've visited dozens of other food venues and places where public Wi-Fi is available.  I've not yet run across any other instance of the blocking of Christian and Catholic content.  My local Pizza Huts are unique in preventing their patrons from accessing the majority of faith-based websites.  As long as these Pizza Huts continue this practice, they won't be getting any of my business.

My first discovery of possible strangeness with Pizza Hut's web filtering occurred late in the summer of 2019.  I was surfing the internet on my iPad while waiting for my $10 Dinner Box to be made.  I found that I could not visit the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website (http://www.usccb.org).  This is probably one of the most visited websites among Catholics.  Among other things, this website features the scripture readings for each day.  At first I thought it was just some kind of glitch.  I then proceeded to visit some other (non-religious) web pages and forgot about the issue.  However, on a subsequent visit to the same Pizza Hut, one week before Thanksgiving (11/21/19), I ran into the problem again.  When attempting to visit http://www.usccb.org I would get this message:

This time I decided to investigate further.  I used Google, to pull up web addresses of other Catholic websites and attempted to visit them.  I was able to visit some of my local church sites but all the major sites I was attempting to visit were either being blocked outright or giving me security warnings.  These security warnings appeared to give me an option to view the page.   But when attempting to navigate to any of the pages where warning messages were displayed, I would ultimately encounter the "Web Page Blocked!" message that you see above.

After dinner that evening, I contacted Pizza Hut via their feedback page.  I kindly explained to them what I encountered and that I found this blocking of Catholic websites very disturbing.  Within a few minutes of my submittal, I received this automated email reply:

Two days later (11/23/19), I received another email.

I was hoping that someone at Pizza Hut would eventually send some sort of explanation after they had time to review this issue or just fix the problem.  But nothing further ever came.  As the holidays were approaching I had many other personal projects underway.  But I resolved to investigate this issue further once the holidays were over--especially if I didn't get any further feedback from Pizza Hut.  Questions I wanted to answer included:

#1 Is this blocking of websites only limited to Catholic websites or are other Christian sites affected?

#2 Does this website blocking extend across other Pizza Hut locations?

#3 Is the problem specific to my iPad or do other computers experience the same access issues on Pizza Hut Wi-Fi?

#4 Do any other publicly accessible Wi-Fi networks experience the same blocking behavior as Pizza Hut's Wi-Fi?

Answer to Question #1: The blocking of websites extends across most Christian sites
To investigate to what extent this web page blocking occurred, I created a web page of religious links.  The first 12 links represent pages created by Catholics or pages that I found out about from other Catholic sources.  The second set of 12 links are what I consider to be general Christian (but non-Catholic related) links.  Both the Catholic and general Christian links represent major websites that are accessed nationally if not worldwide.  In the case of creating the general Christian links, I made an extra effort to ensure that I was including top ranked sites.  Note, other than the usccb.org site, I did not know in advance which sites might be blocked.  That is, I did not hand-pick sites that I knew or thought would fail.  My religious links test page can be found here:  https://kantack.com/faithtest

I then tested my web page at a few other food locations (including a pizza restaurant other than Pizza hut).  All 24 links worked flawlessly.  I then revisited my local Pizza Hut and came up with these results:

Of the 12 Catholic web sites I link to, 10 of them are blocked.  The two sites that somehow manage to make it through Pizza Hut's filter are:  First Things and Catholic World Report.

For the 12 general Christian web sites I attempted to visit, 11 of them are blocked.  The only non-Catholic Christian website I could access on Pizza Hut's Wi-Fi was: The Christian Post.

What the Blocking Looks Like
The blocking of these websites varies a bit from site to site.  On at least two of the Catholic web links (USCCB.org and Integrated Catholic Life), Pizza Hut's network takes you straight to the "Web Page Blocked!" screen.  

Most of the time Pizza Hut's blocking makes it look like there is a problem with the website.  The actual messages you will see will vary a bit depending on what operating system and web browser you're using.  (The following screenshots below were taken from my iPad.) 

When attempting to access a site that Pizza Hut doesn't want you to see, you first get this message: