Reminds me of when they do 'firewall updates' at work, and many of the common open-source repositories/hosting etc are blocked.

I understand than some malicious software may use things like curl, but it's also annoying to have to re-create the same ticket and submit to internal IT, and then if someone working on the ticket hasn't done this before, they close it, we have to have a meeting about why we need access to that site...