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CyberPatrol blocks Carnegie Mellon Univ, journalism lists, and more
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Warren)
Mon Mar 13 20:20:30 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:02:07 -0800
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.COM>
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Librarians being forced to install censoring software on their
Internet-access computers will find this interesting.
So will those vile peole who are involved in journalism of almost any form.
--jim <sigh>
>Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:15:44 -0800 (PST)
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>
>So I took a look through the CyberNOT list and was pleasantly unsurprised
>by the program's zaniness, idiocy, and sheer lunacy. Incompetence and
>prudishness are still alive and well in the censorware industry!
>
>To be fair to CyberPatrol, the bulk of the verboten-links are sexually
>explicit, or at least may have been at some point in the last five years.
>But parents and libraries might want to think twice about installing
>something that can't tell a quilting club from sexybabes.com.
>
>For instance, CyberPatrol blocks all student organizations at Carnegie
>Mellon University, including (you guessed it) the Carnegie Threads quilting
>club, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and robotics clubs:
> http://loiosh.andrew.cmu.edu/org/ (Sexual Acts / Text, Intolerance)
>
>For no apparent reason, it blocks the entire corporate site of Golden West
>Companies ("serving the communications needs of South Dakotans for over 40
>years"):
> http://goldenwestcom.virtdomain.nortel.net/
>
>What Usenet newsgroups Cyberpatrol's morality crusaders find objectionable
>is arguably even more interesting. For instance, journalism discussions are
>off-limits because of "intolerance," which might be a just criticism of
>some corners of the industry, but certainly doesn't seem enough to ban
>discussions of newsgathering:
>
>alt.journalism:
>alt.journalism.music:
>alt.journalism.newspapers:
>alt.journalism.print:
>alt.journalism.photo:
>alt.journalism.freelance:
>alt.journalism.moderated:
>
>Some others include discussions of Philip K. Dick's science fiction
>(alt.books.phil-k-dick is sorted into drug/drug culture), feminism, Jungian
>psychology, food, Chinese culture, and chess and bridge.
>
>More info:
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-00994.html
> http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=censorware
> http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=loudoun
>
>-Declan
>
>alt.abuse-recovery:
>alt.answers:
>alt.cybercafes:
>alt.feminism:
>alt.feminism.individualism:
>alt.multimedia.toolbook:
>alt.multimedia.director:
>alt.psychology.personality:
>alt.psychology.help:
>alt.psychology.person:
>alt.psychology:
>alt.psychology.jung:
>alt.psychology.adlerian:
>ba.motss (same-sex issues and discussions)
>fj.rec.food:
>fj.soc.culture.chinese:
>misc.activism.progressive:
>news.groups.reviews:
>news.groups.questions:
>news.groups:
>ont.general:
>princeton.general:
>rec.games.chess.analysis:
>rec.games.chess.misc:
>rec.games.pinball:
>rec.games.backgammon:
>rec.games.board:
>rec.games.bridge:
>
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