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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 9:20pm

   
   

   They probably added it because they use IE and didn't want people to see how poorly coded their 'this page is blocked' pages are.

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   Mr. Giggles, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 9:42pm

   
   

   2009 IBC

   similarly, the construction industry is having hearings about classifying the new building code as porn...

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   zcat, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 10:00pm

   
   

   Finnish police to blame

   Apparently the blocking list is one compiled and distributed by the Finnish Police.. so perhaps they don't deserve to be in the policing business?

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   qez, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 10:03pm

   
   

   National Bureau of Investigation

   Any filtering system that classifies the W3C as porn doesn't deserve to be in the filtering business.
   
   I totally agree. The list of filtered web sites is provided by National Bureau of Investigation.
   
   The whole censorship is a like a bad joke. Here's one of the Electronic Frontier Finland's press releases about the issue. I don't know if you would laugh or cry if you would know all the details, this kind of stupidity shouldn't happen in modern day democratic society. I guess Finland is not part of that.

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   Overcast, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 10:25pm

   
   

   I get all my best Porn there.

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   Chunky Vomit, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 10:45pm

   
   

   Can't a geek get off on reading HTML references any more? What is next, A List Apart? CSS Zen Garden?
   
   If this keeps up, I might have to go have sex with my wife.

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   Chunky Vomit, Sep 30th, 2008 @ 11:49pm

   
   

   Re: 2009 IBC

   Don't construction workers get enough porn when they go to the strippers at night?

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 12:27am

   
   

   Finland is quite a bit more democratic than the US. That two party system seems to work so well. Which side of the sane coin is going to win this time? Why do USians think they own it? Oh yeah, its the US. Creators of the world.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 1:49am

   
   

   Re: Re: 2009 IBC

   No, but the general public gets to see enough porn in the form of builders arse cleavage, nice...

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    Evan Carslake, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 2:45am

    
    

    Re: National Bureau of Investigation

    Haha that press release was quite funny, even the title alone.

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    Ima Fish, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 4:01am

    
    

    My work uses SonicWall to block sites. Once Slate and the New York times were blocked as pornography.

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    Lisa Westveld (profile), Oct 1st, 2008 @ 4:06am

    
    

    Actually...

    There are many porn sites that contain links to the W3C sites. This is a nice trick to tell webspiders and webcrawlers to get lost and stop spending bandwidth of the porn site itself. As a result, you can find plenty of references to the W3C on porn sites.
    
    Then again, many other sites including the TechDirt sites contain links to the W3C site. Techdirt uses this reference:
    
    So when an ISP blocks a porn site and everything it references to, W3C gets blocked too. :-)

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    Anonymous Coward, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 4:54am

    
    

    One other option

    If you have an axe to grind with a web site you can hit the big filter companies and subit there URL as this or that.
    
    Once you have done this the site gets added to the bad list untill the site owner can try and get it fixed.

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    NullOp, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 5:41am

    
    

    W3C, porn?

    "When in doubt, filter it out." Thats how a lot of filters work. In todays litigious climate companies are trying to protect themselves from litigation in every way possible. An "All Ya Gotta Do" solution looks very attractive but, in fact, is not currently possible. So in the long run, deal with it.

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    Michael Tulloch, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 8:03am

    
    

    Blocking sw

    When I taught introductory psychology at the University of South Dakota my students complained they couldn't access the class website from libraries or schools. I found out the state was blocking the Intro to Psych website because their blocking SW said the site contained "occult" material.

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    Chris, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 8:06am

    
    

    3 Women one Cup?

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    Eric the Grey, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 11:28am

    
    

    Filtering software

    I've seen problems like this, where sites were incorrectly labeled by filtering software. One of my radio stations (area93.com) is filtered at work as being a hacker site.
    
    Oh, and I find it interesting that www.w3c.org is owned by Yahoo. Talk about typo squatting.
    
    
    EtG

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    known coward, Oct 1st, 2008 @ 12:25pm

    
    

    you mean

    the web consortium is not porn???

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    JoelMBenge (profile), Oct 1st, 2008 @ 2:05pm

    
    

    It's obvious.

    Like you said, it's a "body". Need I mention that it strips code down to its bare essentials? *snerk*

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    Jason, Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 12:19am

    
    

    Typed soft porn into google and this was one of the results, i thought it was pretty funny: http://leeannejaud.pictiger.com/albums/42405/16939866/

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    Evan Carslake, Oct 16th, 2008 @ 5:16am

    
    

    Re:

    There are more of her at http://www.27bslash6.com/photos_2008_beach.html

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