WebSense Patents Censorware System

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @11:00AM from the ones-and-zeros dept.

Matthew Skala writes "As reported in SiliconValley.internet.com, filtering-software vendor Websense has received US Patent 6,606,659 on a "System and method for controlling access to internet sites". The new features in the patented system seem to revolve around using time limits instead of filtering sites out entirely; offering users a choice of viewing a site and having it logged, or not viewing it; and a scheme for automatically categorizing sites that looks very much like the "Bayesian filters" we've heard so much about in recent weeks. You may be interested in the filtering company's press release about their patent, or my own view."

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Who are you? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-09 11:03 · Score: 0, Troll

And why would I be interested in reading your view, giving you page hits, or otherwise allowing you to spew your nonsense everywhere?

I've heard of shameless self-promotion, but Christ, you take the cake, and I am now putting an entry in my hosts file for your site that resolves to goatse.cx. I'd rather see that than your ramblings.