Thanks for the update. I'm wondering how these other political Websites are classified by Websense:
http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/animutop.htm http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ http://www.davidduke.com/ http://www.insearchofaztlan.com/plan.html http://www.nogaymarriage.com/ http://struggle.ws/once/irl_imp.html http://biblia.com/abortion/ http://www.larouchepub.com/ http://www.aim.org http://www.911truth.org/ http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/ http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ http://www.vdare.com/ http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html Richard > The site was reviewed last night and we re-classified it into "news and > media". All customers who have real-time updates enabled would have been > fixed as of last night. Customers who use nightly downloads will see the > change on their next download interval. > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [funsec] Websense and political censorship > > > Hello, > > I'm not a big fan of the Little Green Footballs Web site, but I > sometimes read it to see what conservatives are saying about particular > news events. Yesterday, a reader of LGF was unable to go to the Web > site from his work computer because of Websense blocking software. > Today this person got a reply that an employee at Websense has decided > that the site is promoting "racism and hate". Does anyone know why > Websense is in the political censorship business? > > By chance, I was also reading comments about a Boston Globe story on > subprime leading. Some of the posts came across as racist to me. > Should the Boston Globe also be censored? Here are the messages: > > http://tinyurl.com/2a4c5j > > Richard M. Smith > http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com > > ________________________________ > > > http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_Blo > cking_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are&only > > From: Websense [...] > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:09 PM > To: [...] > Subject: Thank you for your Websense DB Update inquiry > > Thank you for writing to Websense. > > The site you submitted has been reviewed. We have found that it is best > classified accordingly: > > http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ - Racism and Hate > > For our category definitions, please refer to: > > [Link: > http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCat > egories.php > <http://ww2.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URLCa > tegories.php> ] > > Please note that it is your organization's Websense administrator who > determines what categories are to be restricted. If you would like to > access this site, we recommend that you contact this person and request > that either the category or specific URL be custom-permitted. > > Thank you for your inquiry, > > The Websense Database Services Staff > D.G. > Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:08:08 PM > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
