Thousands of Sites Wrongly Blocked

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 30, 2001 @11:21AM from the department-of-redundancy dept.

Ben Edelman writes: "In the context of the ACLU's pending challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act (PDF), I recently prepared a list of some 6000+ web sites that, by and large, fail to meet the category definitions of popular Internet filtering programs yet are blocked by at least one such program. This topic may be old hat, but my work is new: I have prepared an unusually large list of sites (including police departments, libraries, home-schooling sites, candidates for political office, and on and on), and I have retested these sites over a period of several months."

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Re:Hello? by troller_park_trash · 2001-10-30 16:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

I don't remember seeing this on the homepage, so once FP was achieved, why would anyone waste their time with posting to this thread....

But, seriously, I quit reading the report after I got to the "I received $XXX per hour for my work..." A quick scroll through the rest of the document revealed block upon block of deleted text, and I'm really only interested in that if the deleted text is worth figuring out.

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