From seths list

A little while ago, I noted how Websense, a censorware company, is distributing daily lists of sex sites supposedly not blacklisted by other censorware companies. See:

http://sethf.com/anticensorware/websense/free_sex.php

MSNBC picked up the story, and there's an excellent article about it at:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/774905.asp?cp1=1 "Filter firm's Web site bares all" "Websense links to X-rated sites that it says rivals didn't block"

Websense remains unrepentant:

"Meyer said that company executives were not concerned that kids would use the tool to access objectionable content that that might otherwise be blocked by their parents, teachers or librarians because the company's site caters to corporations and government entities rather than the public."

I'm quoted in the article:

"Seth Finkelstein, a civil libertarian computer programmer adamantly opposed to such "censorware," said the double standard apparently arises out of fear that an internecine feud would highlight the shortcomings of filtering technology."

"If somebody else had done this, they would ban it immediately," said Finkelstein, who won the Electronic Freedom Foundation's 2001 Pioneer Award for his work in monitoring the filtering field. "They do ban directories of such sites, but they're not doing it for this one."

-- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@sethf.com http://sethf.com Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html

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