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Date: 2002-01-08

US: Zensur, Krebshilfe, China-Sex


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Warum die Website der US-Krebshilfe von der Zensur-Software CyberPatrol
blockiert wird, kam nunmehr an den Tag. Es waren nicht Selbsthilfegruppen
von Brustkrebspatientinnen [seit 1996 bekannt], die für Verwechslung mit
Pornosites sorgten, sondern schlicht die Positionierung auf einer IP-Adresse,
die chinesex.net irgendwann einmal innehatte.

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Cyber Patrol has found out why their software is blocking www.cancer.org --
the site inherited its IP address from www.chinesesex.net. In fact, if you go
to http://www.chinesesex.net/, you get taken to the American Cancer
Society home page.

IP address blocking is a common problem. I met Susan Getgood from Cyber
Patrol in March 2001, at a hearing on blocking software held by the National
Academy of Sciences, and one of the things she said was that when Cyber
Patrol 5 came out, it would not block sites by IP address, and so problems
like this would not occur. (I was skeptical at the time, and I've been bugging
the conference organizers ever since, trying to get a copy of the tape with
Susan Getgood's words recorded on it.)

So it looks like breast cancer at sites are still at risk of being blocked, but so
is every other type of site, too. One odd thing is that most political blocked
sites are still liberal sites, even though you'd think that the collateral damage
done by IP address blocking would be random. It's might be that there are
simply more liberal political sites on the Web than conservative, or that
conservative groups have more funding for a "stable" Internet presence (a
single, long-term host, a dedicated IP address, etc.).

Mehr über den Zensurwahnsinn
http://www.peacefire.org

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published on: 2002-01-08
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