IP: What CyberPatrol doesn't want you to see

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:15:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> So I took a look through the CyberNOT list and was pleasantly unsurprised
> by the program's zaniness, idiocy, and sheer lunacy. Incompetence and
> prudishness are still alive and well in the censorware industry!
>
> To be fair to CyberPatrol, the bulk of the verboten-links are sexually
> explicit, or at least may have been at some point in the last five years.
> But parents and libraries might want to think twice about installing
> something that can't tell a quilting club from sexybabes.com.
>
> For instance, CyberPatrol blocks all student organizations at Carnegie
> Mellon University, including (you guessed it) the Carnegie Threads quilting
> club, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and robotics clubs:
>    http://loiosh.andrew.cmu.edu/org/ (Sexual Acts / Text, Intolerance)
>
> For no apparent reason, it blocks the entire corporate site of Golden West
> Companies ("serving the communications needs of South Dakotans for over 40
> years"):
>    http://goldenwestcom.virtdomain.nortel.net/
>
> What Usenet newsgroups Cyberpatrol's morality crusaders find objectionable
> is arguably even more interesting. For instance, journalism discussions are
> off-limits because of "intolerance," which might be a just criticism of
> some corners of the industry, but certainly doesn't seem enough to ban
> discussions of newsgathering:
>
> alt.journalism:
> alt.journalism.music:
> alt.journalism.newspapers:
> alt.journalism.print:
> alt.journalism.photo:
> alt.journalism.freelance:
> alt.journalism.moderated:
>
> Some others include discussions of Philip K. Dick's science fiction
> (alt.books.phil-k-dick is sorted into drug/drug culture), feminism, Jungian
> psychology, food, Chinese culture, and chess and bridge.
>
> More info:
>    http://www.politechbot.com/p-00994.html
>    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=censorware
>    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=loudoun
>
> -Declan
>
> alt.abuse-recovery:
> alt.answers:
> alt.cybercafes:
> alt.feminism:
> alt.feminism.individualism:
> alt.multimedia.toolbook:
> alt.multimedia.director:
> alt.psychology.personality:
> alt.psychology.help:
> alt.psychology.person:
> alt.psychology:
> alt.psychology.jung:
> alt.psychology.adlerian:
> ba.motss (same-sex issues and discussions)
> fj.rec.food:
> fj.soc.culture.chinese:
> misc.activism.progressive:
> news.groups.reviews:
> news.groups.questions:
> news.groups:
> ont.general:
> princeton.general:
> rec.games.chess.analysis:
> rec.games.chess.misc:
> rec.games.pinball:
> rec.games.backgammon:
> rec.games.board:
> rec.games.bridge:
>
>
>
>
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