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Risks of Partisan Spam Filtering?

Posted by Cliff on from the filter-fairly-if-you-filter-at-all dept.

Mike1024 asks: "Pete Klammer reported in RISKS 23.95 about spam filtering software filtering political e-mails - including Postini blocking certain anti-Schwarzenegger URLs and Comcast blocking e-mails mentioning afterdowningstreet.org. This could be caused by malicious action, misreporting of spam, 'joe jobs', or actual spamming. With many people using their ISP's default settings, and manual spam filtering being impractical for many users, what can be done to avoid giving ISPs and anti-spam companies extensive, fully automated censorship abilities?"

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  1. Coincidence? by skintigh2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I seem to recall reading stories that most cyber-nanny type products block access to liberal sites like NOW and PETA and bloack access to democratic candidates, but never block traffic to sites like the NRA...

    Can't find an original story right now, but http://www.washingtonfreepress.org/46/urban_work.h tml