U.S. Gov Agency Blunders With Keyword Blacklist

Anonymous Submitter writes "There's an interesting CNet article which highlights a report released by the OpenNet Initiative. The report examines how "a U.S. government agency charged with fighting Iranian and Chinese Internet censorship is quietly censoring the Web itself". Among some of the sites this U.S. agency accidentally blocks are breastcancer.com, teens.drugabuse.gov, several gay rights websites, and even usembassy.state.gov. Some of the members of the group who prepared this report were responsible for a previous Slashdot discussion entitled "Academics Take On Government Net Censorship". The report raises questions about the potential inaccuracy of proprietary and other secretive filtering mechanisms: who should be responsible for ensuring their accuracy?"

Comments

Culture Bombing...

[Tackhead]

> Given that the mood in Washington is fairly anti-gay rights, what makes you think that one was 'accidental'

Given that the purpose of the exercise is to undermine China and Iran, two countries whose policies on homosexuality make Ashcroft look like J. Edgar Hoover in comparison, it's still an accident.

We're presently engaged in a global war against a culture that prohibits the viewing of women's faces... a culture that - when when its adherents come to Australia, they see our women as whores fit only to be "fucked Leb style", and when they come to France and Norway, they "take turns" on 14-year-olds, then I say desensitizing these animals to sexual stimuli through regular exposure to pr0n is a feature, not a bug.

If we're serious about winning the war on terror, we shouldn't just be letting this stuff through the filter, we should be phoning up Larry Flynt, Bob Guccione, and Hugh Hefner and placing enough orders to load up a fleet of C-130s with copies of every wankmag that gets remaindered and bomb the fuckers into the sexual revolution. Fuck Islam. Bring on the w33ners and b00bies.

Re:Accidental?

[chunkwhite86]

trailing a lot of flame bait today, aren't we? must be trying to catch some bigger fish that can trace your IP.

Yeah, please try. I'm sure script kiddies like yourself have nothing better to do than portscan me. Do I really give a shit if you or anyone else knows my IP address?? There are no bigger fish. Do tell; just what is an angry fag going to do with my IP address? Hmmmm???