What Kind Of Filtering System Thinks W3C Is A Porn Site?
from the one-that-won't-stay-in-business-long,-hopefully dept
We've all heard stories of various online filters that block perfectly legitimate sites as being "porn" or something else objectionable, but sometimes there are such extreme cases that it makes you wonder what people are thinking. Apparently, some ISPs are using a filtering system that believes the W3C site should be blocked as porn. W3C, of course, is the body that manages standards for the web. It was founded, and still run, by the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. Any filtering system that classifies the W3C as porn doesn't deserve to be in the filtering business. Hell, they barely deserve to be on the web at all.
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2009 IBC
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Finnish police to blame
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National Bureau of Investigation
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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If this keeps up, I might have to go have sex with my wife.
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Actually...
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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One other option
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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W3C, porn?
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Blocking sw
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Filtering software
Oh, and I find it interesting that www.w3c.org is owned by Yahoo. Talk about typo squatting.
EtG
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you mean
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It's obvious.
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