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Terms filtered by Cybersitter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Mon Mar 22 20:06:30 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:19:18 -0600
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
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N.B. The following includes a list of words or terms,
selected by the poster, which cause messages to be
censored when the filtering software Cybersitter
is used. Some of these terms might be offensive to
some PACS-L readers.
Jack Hall Associate Moderator, PACS-L
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(part one)
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Subject: Re: Terms Filtered by Cybersitter
Librarians and freedom-of-information volks --
I just received the following, that included a lengthy list of words and
phrases that allegedly cause messages to be censored AUTOMATICALLY at all
net facilities -- e.g., schools, universities, libraries, community
centers, etc. -- that use CYBERSITTER to screen "feelthy" messages.
There are, of course, a large number of words that are the "usual suspects"
-- that I have deleted (use the indicated websites to get the unexpurgated
version). But please consider the words that I have left in the following
excerpt ... and their impact on access to personal messages, discussions,
information access and educational content -- especially at those sites
that are tax-supported and those that *should* provide public access.
Among other things, consider their impacts on school-age, post-secondary
and adult access to news articles, modern and classical literature and
medical, phychological, sociological, physiological and biological
discussions and content. Just for starters!
--jim-in-disgust
Jim Warren, jwarren@well.com, columnist & GovAccess list-owner/editor/janitor
345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062; 650-851-7075; fax-for-the-quaint/650-851-2814
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:31:02 -0800
From: James Lomako <lomako@earthlink.net>
I thought you folks (you have have received a blind copy) might be
interested in this. I have only glanced at it, but I noticed it contains
glaad.com and doesn't contain aclu - I guess civil liberties are OK with
cybersitter as long as they're for straight people. TIP - they have some
sites listed that sound interesting and might be worth checking out
Jim
http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/cybersit.html
Terms Filtered by Cybersitter
Terms Filtered by the ``Cybersitter'' Program
Solid Oak, which sells a software program known as ``Cybersitter'', makes
available by anonymous ftp from <ftp://acorn.solidoak.com> its ftp server a
list of the terms that are censored by that program.
You can download the file from
<ftp://acorn.solidoak.com/Anonymous/pub/cywin0.opt>
ftp://acorn.solidoak.com/Anonymous/pub/cywin0.opt.
The only trouble is that the file is encrypted.
But the good news is that the encryption program that Solid Oak uses is
ridiculously easy to decode. The encryption consists simply of XORing each
byte of the encrypted file with the binary representation of hexidecimal 94.
But the bad news is that I cannot post a program here that would allow you
to decrypt the file because of the United States Government's export
regulations relating to cryptography.
But the good news is that I have used a program that I found on the
internet to decrypt the encrypted file which I downloaded on April 26,
1997. (Since the decrypted file is considerably shorter than the encrypted
file, it appears that the decryption program filtered out a considerable
number of non-printing characters.) It is interesting to note that many of
the censored terms, like ``dontbuycybersitter'', for example, do not fall
within any of the categories that Cybersitter is supposed to filter.
Here Are the Censored Terms <<<EXCERPTED BY ME -- Jim Warren>>>
<<<I deleted many entire lines, so
[...,coitus] <<< insert "..." after each line>>>
...
[voyeur][,ism]
Massage]
[...,have,having,...][sex,...]
[...,getting,giving,...][...,love,...]
[,up][the,his,her,...][...,rectum,anus]
[,homo,bi][sex][y,ual,uality]
[erotica,erotic,...]
[masturbating,...,masturbate,masturbation,...
[urinate,urinating,...]
...,penis,...
[...,vaginal,...][sex]
[his,...][semen,sperm,...]
[...,lesbian,homophobe,pervert,fudge <<<"fudge"???!!!>>>
ranger,fairy] <<<so much for park patrol and Grimm>>>
[...,love][,b][...,story,stories]
[,child,...][porn][,o,ography] <<<censors police & parent
discussions>>>
[video,fantasy,...][...,fantasy,...,talk,video]
[phreddd] <<<wonder what this is?>>>
[nudity,nudism]
[tasteless,...,hotlink,hotlist,redhot]
[fetish]
[asiainfo]
[naturist,nudist]
[mom,mother,father,dad,parents,folks,...][,at,...][around,home]
[white][power,supremacy,seperatist,militia]
[fascist,fascism] <<<so much for 20th Century history>>>
[...,spades] <<<none of those gardening chats!>>>
[sinnfein] <<<Irish supporters better spell
well!>>>
crispy]
[gay,...,homosexual,lesbian,bisexual][society,culture]
[...,cuseeme,...]
[cock,...] <<<4Hers! Beware of poultry farmers!>>>
[he,she][s,is][,a,an,...][stupid,dumb,ugly,fat,idiot,...,dolt,dummy]
[photoshoot,...,showgirl]
{content}{...,adult,sex,nude,naked}
{content}{homosexual,transgender,lesbian,gay,bisexual,bd,lg,lgb}
{content}{breast,...,nipple} <<<no more cancer-survivor talk!>>>
{content}{cheerleaders,...} <<<no more football game reports!>>>
{content}{...,leather} <<<no more shoe descriptions!>>>
{offended,...}{,by}{adult,...} <<<no more offended adults!>>>
[,how][,to,doyou][make,making,construct][,a,an][bomb,explo,napalm,hotwire]
[sleazy] <<<no more discussions of slums>>>
[...,lewd,obscene,...] <<<no more Jerry Falwell lectures>>>
cs.gif,dontbuycybersitter,peacehtml] <<<now THIS is REALLY awful!>>>
[beavisbutthead] <<<no more TV schedules>>>
[spoofcentral]
[,commit,mass][suicide] <<<no more sad news articles>>>
ftp.spies.com <<<will the CIA like it, or not?>>>
quartz.rutgers.edu
anon.penet.fi <<<no more anonymous messages>>>
hooked.net <<<a major ISP!>>>
cris.com <<<one of the *major* ISPs; I use it>>>
cs.mcgill.ca <<<Computer Sci Dept @ Canada's
McGill>>>
paranoia.com <<<useful for investigative reporters>>>
abacus.oxy.edu
webpersonals.com <<<one of the popular personals sites>>>
intermac.com
ftp.intermac.com
diode.com
netmart.com
net.com
accounting.com
infoboard.com
inc.com
ecco.com
sportsmans.com
www.bbsnet.com
digiweb.com
telescope.com
netfinder.com
euronet.com
intergate.net
interserve.com.hk
www.cts.com
crocker.com
cybermart.com
cybershop.net
earth.ast.smith.edu
berlin.de
jewelry.com
www.uchicago.edu <<<University of Chicago??!!!>>>
laonline.com
publishers.net
cyberspace.com
interaccess.com
resistance.com
seanet.com
valleynet.com
www.game.com
net.com
world.com
anonymizer.com
lambda.net
alt.personals
alt.binaries
alt.irc
alt.humor
alt.abortion
soc.women <<<no more women's discussions!!!>>>
soc.support.youth.gay
alt.censorship <<<and DEFINATELY no censorship
discussion>>>
(end of part one)
(part two)
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Subject: Re: Terms Filtered by Cybersitter == MORE INFORMATION
I just received this update, about the word/phrase list that I just
forwarded, allegedly used by CYBERSITTER for its automated censorship
tasks. (No, I don't know the writer, nor the "Bennett" nor the "Brian"
mentioned by the writer. Check Wired News and news.com for details.)
--jim; jwarren@well.com
Jim Warren, Contributing Editor & columnist, MicroTimes Magazine
Also GovAccess list-owner/editor; 345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062
voice/650-851-7075; fax-for-the-quaint/650-851-2814
[self-inflating puff: Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award, Playboy Foundation;
Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (in its first year);
James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award, Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif
founded InfoWorld; the Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conferences; etc etc etc.]
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>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:55:31 -0800
>From: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre@cyberpass.net>
>Subject: Re: Terms Filtered by Cybersitter
>Cc: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>, James Lomako <lomako@earthlink.net>
>
>This is the CYBERsitter 2.12 list (which was the output of Bennett's
>codebreaker in early '97). It is *not* the list used by CYBERsitter 97 or 99.
>
>As a side note, AOL, through Mirabilis, through ICQ (don't you love
>corporate heirarchies) was caught with its pants down, offering an
>apparently purloined copy of the 2.12 list for use in ICQ99beta, through
>www.clickchoice.com. If one reads the various pieces yesterday and the day
>before in Wired News and news.com (which has the better coverage on this),
>one can find Brian Milburn, Mark Kanter, Bennett and me, among others,
>railing against this.
>
>You *know* something is wacky when, even for a nanosecond, Bennett and
>Brian are both protesting the same thing, even though for different
>reasons. ;-)
>
>At 04:42 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>>Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.COM> posted to:
>>State and Local Freedom of Information Issues <FOI-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: Terms Filtered by Cybersitter
>>
>>Librarians and freedom-of-information volks --
>>
>>I just received the following, that included a lengthy list of words and
>>
...
>
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>James S. Tyre mailto:j.s.tyre@cyberpass.net
>Bigelow, Moore & Tyre, LLP 626-792-6806/626-792-1402(fax)
>540 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101
>Co-founder, The Censorware Project http://censorware.org
