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IP: IT: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:34:07 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:17:11 -0500 To: dave () farber net Subject: IT: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines [Please consider this submission for your list] Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:17:11 -0500 From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list <infothought () sethf com> Subject: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines Available at: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/image.php BESS vs Image Search Engines Abstract: This report investigates how N2H2's censorware treats several image search engines. N2H2/BESS turns out to blacklist popular general image searching sites as "Pornography". The cached images held by such sites are probably the cause. This is discussed as a deep dilemma of censorware, where general search facilities may be considered as tainted if they contain any cached forbidden material. -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf () sethf com http://sethf.com Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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