Internet filter "Smartfilter", censors political incorrect websites
Gary | 17.08.2006 23:39
Here is this so called "filtering techonology" being used in corporations and schools to filter internet access and out of curiosity I tried to see how alicelovers.com webpage is classified, go and guess that the classification is on section "Extreme Pornography" of course blocked access.
Then I go and try webpage www.horror.org which is association of horror stories writers, and that only gets an "entertainment" classification.
And that is one of the main problems of filtering technologies who decides what is what? Something that to me is art for another is "extreme pornography" and something that for me is horror for others is "entertainment". So under the guise of childrens protection this Smartfilter gets away with internet censorship, because they may agree or not agree with VoA oppinions but it is still that, oppinions and debate and anyone suggesting this website is "extreme pornography" is a twat bent on censoring oppinions camouflaging them with claims of some inexistent pornography, and saying that the non existent pornography is "extreme" just the ice on the cake.
I would imagine they did not dare put alicelovers.com under the "political incorrect" classification as someone can call them censors. And who knows how many political incorrect websites are out there classified under "extreme porn".
You can test a particular page classification in Smartfilter here:
http://www.securecomputing.com/sfwhere/index.cfm
And you can get around stupid filters with Peacefire here:
http://www.peacefire.org
And that is one of the main problems of filtering technologies who decides what is what? Something that to me is art for another is "extreme pornography" and something that for me is horror for others is "entertainment". So under the guise of childrens protection this Smartfilter gets away with internet censorship, because they may agree or not agree with VoA oppinions but it is still that, oppinions and debate and anyone suggesting this website is "extreme pornography" is a twat bent on censoring oppinions camouflaging them with claims of some inexistent pornography, and saying that the non existent pornography is "extreme" just the ice on the cake.
I would imagine they did not dare put alicelovers.com under the "political incorrect" classification as someone can call them censors. And who knows how many political incorrect websites are out there classified under "extreme porn".
You can test a particular page classification in Smartfilter here:
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And you can get around stupid filters with Peacefire here:
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Gary
Homepage:
http://www.alicelovers.com
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