The reason anonymizer is blocked is because it functions as a proxy via which one can get to (presumably) any page on the web. The alternative would be to block *every* URL many times: once for the regular URL and once for the one that starts with www.anonymizer.com and once for each of the other proxy-type services out there (any number of places where you can surf the web in swedish chef, pig-latin, jive, backwards, via language translation, etc, work basically the same way - and I bet they're all blocked too). I don't think it's anonymous speech they object to; it's all the millions of proscribed sites that can be browsed via anonymizer. Bear On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:
I just checked www.anonymizer.com --- they are blocked. So anon speech is dangerous for kids and library patrons, eh?