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When N2H2 Mistakenly Calls Your Website 'Porn'?
Scott Auge asks: "Should one be able to sue a filtering company for libel? After seeing an article top) about filtering software for sites, I decided to take a look at how mine is listed. Upon punching my site in at this N2H2 form, I see it listed as pornography. One look at my site, and you will know it is far from pornography. doesn't seem quite right to me. Opinions?"
I'm the owner of www.pdrap.org and I'm offended that I am not listed in your database. I suggest that you put me in the category of "subversive liberal" but if you don't have a match for that, then pornography or foul language will do. Thanks.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I sent them a note with their revision thing explaining that your site wasn't porn. Maybe if you bug them enough they'll look at it again. How long have you had this address? Maybe the database is old.
"I only speak the truth"
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Not porn?
In the words of some bender-like entity: "Look at the schematics of that revised algebaric evaluator. Hubba, hubba!"
Is it libel? You decide. Read the whole bit.
Also see defamation.
This is the best you can get from Slashdot. As usual, for a real answer, you're going to need to consult a lawyer. I especially note that slander/libel is done on the state level according to findlaw, so since you don't give your state of residence, and because few if any posters are likely to understand the details of interstate legal interactions for things like this (including me!), it's probably impossible for even a lawyer who happens to be cruising Slashdot giving out free advice (also known as "casting pearls before swine") to give you a solid answer.
Right next to where it classiffied your site there is a button saying "Review Site". Clcik on that and there is an option to tell them why the site should be unblocked, or noto labled as Porn. Doesn't seem to hard to me...
they were making a suggestion as to what to add to get more traffic.
... mine's labled as "sports". WTF...
Since something like 80% of the net traffic is porn related, maybe you'll actually get more traffic with it listed this way.
I suggest you change your page title to "scat titty licker teen pussy horse hardcore" to amplify this effect.
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
Is your site virtual hosted? If so, then you may be sharing a server with a porn site.
So, if IP address s.y.z.a serves both your site and www.pervertsinculverts.com, then you will be besmirched by them, since you share the same server.
It sucks, but then, all content filtering like this sucks.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Dear Slashdot
I would like for you to link to my web site so I can get some more hits. I found a flimsy excuse that I might be listed in some blacklist somewhere, so I'm sure that will make me more popular. Thank you.
Pretty good, but more like: "I went to the trouble to list my own site in a blacklist somewhere..."
It's all going according to
Google indexes 3 billion pages. Most censorware companies claim to review every banned page manually. Guess what? There's no way to make the numbers work. They rely on crudes rules of thump. Which by definition sometimes fail.
Check out my introduction to censorware. Most slashdotters will already be familiar with all of this except maybe some of the arguments.
P.S. Yes, I wrote "thump". Intentionally.
...or rather, how do they do the rating anyway?
Just for the thrill, I ran one of my own websites* thru the system, and this is what I got:
The Site: won-tolla.future.easyspace.com is categorized by N2H2 as: Web Page Hosting/Free Pages
The site you submitted resides on a Web page hosting server that provides Web page hosting for their users such as homepages that share a common domain. These sites include those provided by ISPs, University/education servers, free Web page hosts, etc. Although many of these Web page providers post rules and regulations for content, they do not always adequately monitor this content. Users often abuse Web page services by posting offensive content under multiple pseudonyms.
Now, this site contains stuff that can be labeled, among other things, pornographic. It also contains a lot of other stuff, but thats beside my point right now.
My point is; they seem to rate domains on what you're most likely to find there - not the induvidual sites.
*)The same that is showing up there, just under my nick.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Are you seriously suggesting that someone use a free, quick, common-sense solution when instead they could spend five figures and five years on a lawsuit?
Attitudes like yours are the reason we have so many skeletal lawyers collapsing from hunger in the street.
I don't know how they do things in *your* country, but *here* we drive our SUVs straight to the attorney no matter what happens.
(It's a joke, son)