Comments on: Britain’s BT blocks ‘kiddie porn’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1946 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:02:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1946/comment-page-1#comment-3488 Reader's Write Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:48:33 +0000 #comment-3488 We must always be suspicious of any censorship attempts such as website filters, since they - just like government - have a natural tendency to expand far beyond the original purpose for which they were created. One such web filter, the ADL's "Hate Filter" has been pushed at schools and libraries, as well as having been incorporated into commercial products such as Cyber Patrol. While most people might not mind blocking out the "I-know-it-when-I-see-it" type sites that overtly and shamelessly promote violence and hatred, the ADL webfilter's blacklist has grown to block out scores of moderate and innocuous political and informational websites, including pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli occupation, historical revisionist, and Islamic web sites, and not surprisingly, even sites that directly criticise the ADL itself. ***I would have posted links in the article if I knew the format *** We must always be suspicious of any censorship attempts such as website filters, since they – just like government – have a natural tendency to expand far beyond the original purpose for which they were created.

One such web filter, the ADL’s “Hate Filter” has been pushed at schools and libraries, as well as having been incorporated into commercial products such as Cyber Patrol. While most people might not mind blocking out the “I-know-it-when-I-see-it” type sites that overtly and shamelessly promote violence and hatred, the ADL webfilter’s blacklist has grown to block out scores of moderate and innocuous political and informational websites, including pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli occupation, historical revisionist, and Islamic web sites, and not surprisingly, even sites that directly criticise the ADL itself.

***I would have posted links in the article if I knew the format ***

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1946/comment-page-1#comment-3478 Reader's Write Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:52:10 +0000 #comment-3478 Don't be astonished ye who enter here just beyond this door is 1984 ... Don’t be astonished ye who enter here just beyond this door is 1984 …

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