Calling All Gun-Rights Activists : Beware Censorware
Consumer Reports has a censorware article, Consumer Reports "Filtering software: Better, but still fallible". (thanks, Ernie, CoCo). Before I say the usual things, to the usual people, for the usual uselessness, I'd like to highlight one sentence of the piece in the vain hope of stirring some unusual interest:
Informative sites are snubbed, too. The best porn blockers were heavy-handed against sites about health issues, sex education, civil rights, and politics. For example, seven products blocked KeepAndBearArms.com, a site advocating gun owners' rights. Most unwarranted blocking occurred with sites featuring sex education or gender-related issues.
That's presumably with standard defaults, since there are many blacklists. But censorware's never been just about sex.
By Seth Finkelstein | posted in censorware | on May 13, 2005 02:22 PM (Infothought permalink)
