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RE: Websense and political censorship
From: rms () computerbytesman com
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks for the update. I'm wondering how these other political Websites are classified by Websense: http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/animutop.htm http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ http://www.davidduke.com/ http://www.insearchofaztlan.com/plan.html http://www.nogaymarriage.com/ http://struggle.ws/once/irl_imp.html http://biblia.com/abortion/ http://www.larouchepub.com/ http://www.aim.org http://www.911truth.org/ http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/ http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ http://www.vdare.com/ http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html Richard
The site was reviewed last night and we re-classified it into "news and media". All customers who have real-time updates enabled would have been fixed as of last night. Customers who use nightly downloads will see the change on their next download interval. ________________________________ From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:13 AM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Websense and political censorship Hello, I'm not a big fan of the Little Green Footballs Web site, but I sometimes read it to see what conservatives are saying about particular news events. Yesterday, a reader of LGF was unable to go to the Web site from his work computer because of Websense blocking software. Today this person got a reply that an employee at Websense has decided that the site is promoting "racism and hate". Does anyone know why Websense is in the political censorship business? By chance, I was also reading comments about a Boston Globe story on subprime leading. Some of the posts came across as racist to me. Should the Boston Globe also be censored? Here are the messages: http://tinyurl.com/2a4c5j Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com ________________________________ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_Blo cking_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are&only From: Websense [...] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:09 PM To: [...] Subject: Thank you for your Websense DB Update inquiry Thank you for writing to Websense. The site you submitted has been reviewed. We have found that it is best classified accordingly: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ - Racism and Hate For our category definitions, please refer to: [Link: http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCat egories.php <http://ww2.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCa tegories.php> ] Please note that it is your organization's Websense administrator who determines what categories are to be restricted. If you would like to access this site, we recommend that you contact this person and request that either the category or specific URL be custom-permitted. Thank you for your inquiry, The Websense Database Services Staff D.G. Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:08:08 PM
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