"Racism and hate" is also a term used by some to denigrate a site whose politics they don't like.
And there's more to it than that. I don't read it, but I remember that during the Lebanon war last year it was LGF that exposed the faked photos put out by Reuters. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gadi Evron Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:29 PM To: Richard M. Smith Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Websense and political censorship On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Richard M. Smith wrote: > 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 Racism and hate is political? Anyway, any organization can censor whoever they want in their own network, as long as they don't censor the Internet itself. > > _____ > > > http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_B > lockin > g_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are > <http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25008_Update-_Websense_ > Blocki > ng_LGF_-_Indeed_They_Are&only> &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/URLC > ategor > ies.php > <http://ww2.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/MasterDatabase/URL > Catego > ries.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. _______________________________________________ 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.
