DoJ Following Porn Blocker Advances?

GreedyCapitalist writes "A new filter called iShield is able to recognize porn images based on the content of the image (other filters look at URLs and text) and according to PC Magazine, it is very effective. The next generation will probably be even better -- which highlights the retarding effect regulation has on technological progress - if we relied solely on government to ban 'inappropriate' content from the web, we'd never know what solutions the market might come up with. Will the DOJ (which argues that porn filters don't work) take note of filtering innovation or continue its quest for censorship?"

Comments

Reversal

[orangeguru]

Since it is so good identifing pr0n I can't wait to get my first pornbot with that function to find me some more.

Re:Reversal

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're having trouble finding porn on the Internet you're doing something wrong...

Re:Reversal

[aichpvee]

Maybe it could syndicate the porn via RSS after collecting it. And before anyone gets any ideas, PornCast(tm) is now officially a trademark of me. I will be submitting my patent on the iPorn Portable Pornography Player shortly.

our favorite

[gEvil (beta)]

Does it work on everyone's favorite image, hello.jpg?

Re:our favorite

[ettlz]

$ ishield hello.jpg
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Backwards..

[onion2k]

Can I run it backwards and filter out everything that isn't porn? I'd find that more .. useful.

Need programers ?

[lemonjus2]

I wonder how many hours the poor programers worked in order to test this thing :)

Looking for porn that the filter cant handle...

What those meetings must have looked like.

Re:hmm

[spiritraveller]

At some point, the computer would have to decide what is arousing and what is not.

Could give HAL-9000 a whole new outlook.

So much for animal rights

[alx5000]

Nobody seems to be caring bout the 10^5 monkeys that check every image thus making the filter work... Poor perverted animals...

What is porn?

[houghi]

Is this cameltoe porn or is it only porn if you get exited watching it?

Re:What is porn?

[grimJester]

...and in a chilling twist of irony, the firewall of my employer blocked that site :(

Dev Meetings

[TiggertheMad]

Manager: "All right team, looks like Joe has finally come up with a fast and fairly accurate algorithim to spot those dirty old pornographic images. We will need to test it a bit first, to see what the signal to noise ratio is. We will need some test groups, though."

"Yeah, sure bob, you can run the 'barely legal college girls' tests. Janet and Simone, you check the 'hot lesbian' batches. What? Sure Ramone, you can check the 'young gay studs' test. Now, who is going to run the 'goatse.cx' tests?"

"Guys....? Anyone?"

Inconceivable!

[rkcallaghan]

Does it work on everyone's favorite image, hello.jpg?

A goatse reference that is helpful and useful? Inconceivable!

I would buy this software if it could filter me from seeing that ever again.(I jest, but only slightly)

~Rebecca

Re:Inconceivable!

[ettlz]

The best way to remove Goatse from your mind is to find a different, more troubling image to replace it with

Like this one.

Re:Inconceivable!

[ettlz]

I would buy this software if it could filter me from seeing that ever again.

Or you could train your mind, as I have. My occiputal lobe no longer processes Goatse as it "should", and substitutes a fuzzy blur in its lieu. I literally cannot see it!

Unfortunately, this is not without side effects. For instance, it's no longer safe for me to drive through tunnels.

Why didn't I think of this?

[Zapman]

if (percent_pink_pixels(image) >= 70%)
      flag_as_porn(image);
endif

Step1: use silly algorithm
Step2: ...
Step3: PROFIT!

Hmm..

[bigattichouse]

So if I build a website for close-up shots of orchids, will it get banned?

My work so far...

[OverflowingBitBucket]

I've developed a simple algorithm for checking web pages for pornographic content. It is roughly 98% accurate when fed a random page from the 'net. Here's the code so far:

bool check_porn_content(const char *url)
{
    (void)url;
    return true;
}

Any suggestions for further development, or licensing queries, please let me know.

Anyone for ""Naked Orion Slave Girls"???

[pandrijeczko]

...and lets see if those porn filters can cope with the prevalence of the colour green rather than pink.

Re:Screaming so loud we can't hear you anymore

[Unique2]

Thats because black & white porn is called "art".