The blog, Boing Boing, has ended up on the nudity site lists for Secure Computing web content filtering company. Now, while I can see they get a little raucous at times, filtering is nuts. The occassional link to fleshbot does not a p0rn site make. Furthermore Michaelangelo’s “David” is NOT p0rn.
Boing Boing has recently been added to a blacklist of “nudity” related sites run by the US-based company Secure Computing, resulting in its being banned in entire countries – like the UAE, as well as many corporate firewalls.
The Boing Boing crew responded…
So instead we’ve decided to help put Secure Computing out of business. We’re doing this in three ways: * First, we’re publishing a guide to evading the SmartFilter censorware. There are hundreds of ways to defeat these censorware apps, and we’re going to catalog as many of them as possible.
Link to “BoingBoing’s Guide To Evading Censorware.”
* Next, we’re compiling a list of SmartFilter’s dumb classifications. Send us your misclassified SmartFilter sites so we can add them to the list.
* Finally, we’re producing a guide to convincing your employer to ditch SmartFilter. It consists of parts one and two above: a list of bad SmartFilter classifications and a list of ways that SmartFilter can be shredded like wet kleenex. Why spend money on bad technology that doesn’t work?Signed, the BoingBoing team:
– Cory Doctorow
– Mark Frauenfelder
– Xeni Jardin
– David Pescovitz
– John Battelle
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