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Re: Websense and political censorship
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:28:45 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Richard M. Smith wrote:
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
Racism and hate is political? Anyway, any organization can censor whoever they want in their own network, as long as they don't censor the Internet itself.
_____ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_Blockin g_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are <http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_Blocki ng_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are&only> &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/URLCategor ies.php <http://ww2.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCatego ries.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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- Re: Websense and political censorship Drsolly (Apr 05)
- Re: Websense and political censorship Ken Dyke (Apr 04)
- RE: Websense and political censorship Larry Seltzer (Apr 04)
- Re: Websense and political censorship Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 04)
- RE: Websense and political censorship Alex Eckelberry (Apr 04)
- Re: Websense and political censorship Ken Dyke (Apr 04)
- RE: Websense and political censorship Larry Seltzer (Apr 04)