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T-Mobile's Optional Censorship Falls Down

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-they're-asking-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile USA offers a 'feature' to restrict access to certain kinds of content. This is called Web Guard. Supposedly Web Guard is supposed to inhibit access to content that falls under certain categories. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), developed a tool to detect what sites were being censored. Amongst them were political news sites, foreign sports news sites and other sites that should not have been censored." It's quite an eclectic bunch of sites that are blocked, but then censorware tends to break in interesting ways, even when it's not by design.

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  1. Re:Why shouldn't Newgrounds be on that list? by stms · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crappy adult games? Orgasm Girl is the best game I've ever played. What other game do you win when you give a girl an orgasm besides uhm... actual sex.

  2. Re:Why shouldn't Newgrounds be on that list? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those aren't girls, honey.

  3. Clbuttic? by jc42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... censorware tends to break in interesting ways, even when it's not by design.

    In web development circles this is known as the "clbuttic mistake". ;-)

    Google it.

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  4. Re:I ran into that by Americium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right, because normally I don't have to "log in" using a cellphone, they just bill random people for the minutes I use.

  5. Re:I ran into that by toriver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to mention those unwholesome foreign sports. Those rugby players have way too little padding.