RE: CENSORING EMAILS So what are you doing about it??
Sample Letter on preventing internet censorship
Dear Congressman:
I am writing to you to request your assistance in preventing internet
censorship. Please cut funds to every agency which engages in censorship of
the internet, and block any legislation which would allow any type of internet
censorship.
The excuses for censorship of the internet are quite different from what is
actually being done. We are told that the goal is to prevent spam, pornography,
fraud, sexual predation, and terrorism etc.
With the news of a Department of Homeland Security official having been
arrested for internet solicitation of a minor, the idea of allowing DHS to
censor the internet under the guise of preventing such activity is a little
like sending the fox to guard the henhouse.
Anyone can test internet censorship for themselves, if they have one example
of a censored message. There are certain email messages (most of which are
critical of internet censorship, the Department of Homeland Security, or of
violations of civil liberties) which will CONSISTENTLY be treated as spam, and
blocked from normal delivery.
"Filters" are being installed by individual internet service providers.
The censorship is NOT private.
These filters are being installed as a result of GOVERNMENT PRESSURE.
The Internet Service Provider is now being told that they are now regulated
by the Federal Communications Commission;
which in turn, receives guidelines from the
Department of Homeland Security.
The protocols for these "filters" were developed from guidelines from The
Department of Homeland Security.
OF COURSE there is no legitimate
justification for Federal Communications Commission regulation of the
internet; since it does not use shared air ways.
The summation of all of this is clandestine censorship of the internet.
The ISP's are being FORCED to install the Department of Homeland Security's
"filter", web pages are being shut done, and search engines are being required
to limit certain types of searches.
These programs are purported to stop spam, but it truth, are used to halt
political dissent.
One such program is called the “Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon
University. The program is installed on the Yahoo main email server. It is my
belief that funds for the program may be budgeted through the FCC, now under
the Department of Homeland Security. Certain specific messages as described
above, are stopped from normal delivery by this program regardless of whether
the message is sent to one individual, several email addresses, or to a group,
which would clearly indicate that the program is not about spam, but is a
sinister form of political censorship.
Please do not allow our first amendment rights to be taken from us in the
name of security. Again, please cut funds to all censorship of the internets
(such as the Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University), and block any
attempt at internet censorship.
See letter to Yahoo below this message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what are you doing about it??
----- Original Message -----
From: John Perna
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: [BootcampLiving] RE: CENSORING EMAILS
RE: CENSORING EMAILS
AMEN!!!!!!
The CAPCHA censorship window is installed on the main Yahoo mail server.
It means nothing that you can post from somewhere else, EXCEPT that the
CAPCHA censorship is not there YET.
The Department of Home land INSecurity's "filter" is in Yahoo, Google, AOL,
and many ISP's.
It comes from the protocols that were developed from guidelines from
The Department of Home land INSecurity.
The Internet Service Provider is now being told that they are now regulated by
the Federal Communications Commission; which in turn, receives guidelines
from the
Department of Homeland Security. OF COURSE there is no legitimate
justification for Federal Communications Commission regulation of the
internet; since it does not use shared air ways.
The summation of all of this is clandestine censorship of the internet.
IF WE DO NOTHING IT WILL BE EXPANDED UNTIL IT CENSORS EVERYTHING.
The most important thing that I have learned from dealing with it is that
every message which has ever triggered this CAPCHA censorship window once ;
almost always triggers this "glitch" every time that it is sent. Even a REPLY
to such a message will trigger the CAPCHA censorship window UNLESS the
censored message is trimmed out. ALMOST ALL of these messages were critical
of something that the Department of Homeland Security had done, or failed to do.
Marci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yahoo Customer care,
It is getting very frustrating trying to send email from our yahoo email
account.
I am requesting, when we try to send group emails, that you stop censoring
our email.
These messages that we get (posted below) are not acceptable. We should not
have to go through this crap over and over trying to get messages posted to our
groups.
If this censoring continues, I will drop all my yahoo groups and move to MSN
groups. And will encourage all other yahoo group owners to do like wise.
Your immediate attention to this matter is requested.
Marci
Marci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I found this message in my "bulk mail folder",
treated as spam,
but this is actually political censorship.
EVEN A REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE,
FROM THE MAIN YAHOO SERVER,
WILL TRIGGER THE CAPCHA CENSORSHIP WINDOW.
The message has been trimmed out to avoid the key word censorship.
CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AND THE ARCHIVES OF THIS GROUP.
The URLS FOR THIS MESSAGE ARE:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericansforMassDeportation/message/5066
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFIRDallasForum/message/3104
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citizensagainstillegalaliens/message/9776
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CloseTheBorders/message/4400
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IllegalAliensInCalifornia/message/4290
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/immigrationrevolt/message/4106
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Michael-Savage/message/7606
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minutemencalifornia/message/2786
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/patriots/message/21187
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stop_illegals_now/message/4785
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txminutemen/message/3881
SEE NOTES ON Censorship tactics on THE INTERNET
When you are a member of an egroup,
you can watch the censorship happen before your very own eyes.
HERE IS What is SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN:
You send a message to the group, and you get your own message back,
because you are one of the members of the group.
HERE IS what SOMETIMES DOES HAPPEN:
I sent a message to the group, and did NOT get that message back.
I checked to see if it was a moderated group,
and the message HAD not yet been approved.
Sometimes I sent a test message, and the test message was delivered.
Then I found that the censored message had been marked as "spam",
and put into the "spam" folder.
Interestingly enough, there are only three messages that I have ever sent;
which almost always triggered this "glitch".
ALL of these messages were critical of something that the Department of
Homeland Security had done.
Now what about the strange problems in just getting the message OUT?
FIRST I sent a message ANNOUNCING that the censored message was
about to be sent, within five minutes.
THEN I sent the censored message.
I got LOTS of emails back from people;
who got the announcement,
but did NOT get the censored message.
Below you will see a few of the problems,
that I encountered trying to sent the censored message
NONE of the things, that you see below, EVER happened,
while sending the ANNOUNCEMENT.
THESE THINGS HAPPENED ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME,
THAT I TRIED TO SEND
THE CENSORED MESSAGE.
Just a few of the censorship tactics that I saw
1. AFTER SENDING A FEW OF THESE MESSAGES, WHILE TRYING TO GO BACK TO
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
I GOT THIS:
We're Sorry... The database is unavailable at the moment.
Please try again in a few minutes. If you continue to experience trouble,
please contact our Customer Care team. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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THEN AFTER I GOT BACK IN I RUN INTO TO NUMEROUS OTHER
DELAYS, AND FRUSTRATIONS.
Here are a few examples:
Send - Verify To finish sending this message and help us fight
spam, please enter the character string as it is shown in the box below.
Trouble seeing this image? Character string shown: [input]
Why do I have to do this? This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using
Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Character String Verification Error You need to pass the verification test
to send any more email.
Your message has not been sent and will not be saved.
Back to Mail Home
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Message Viewing Error Sorry, but we can't display the message you are
trying to view. This error usually occurs when you are trying to access a
message that has been moved or deleted.
Please return to the appropriate folder view (Inbox, a personal folder, etc.)
and try to select the message from there.
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Send - Verify
To finish sending this message and help us fight spam, please enter the
character string as it is shown in the box below.
Trouble seeing this image? Character string shown: [input]
Why do I have to do this? This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using
Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Symantec Mail Security detected prohibited content in a message sent
from your address (SYM:11260357340999701084)
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Send - Verify
To finish sending this message and help us fight spam, please enter the
character string as it is shown in the box below.
Trouble seeing this image? Character string shown: [input]
Why do I have to do this? This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using
Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Send - Verify To finish sending this message and help us fight
spam, please enter the character string as it is shown in the box below.
Trouble seeing this image? Character string shown: [input]
Why do I have to do this? This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using
Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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message. Please try again.
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Send - Verify
To finish sending this message and help us fight spam, please enter the
character string as it is shown in the box below.
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Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Continue
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spam, please enter the character string as it is shown in the box below.
Trouble seeing this image? Character string shown: [input]
Why do I have to do this? This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using
Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.
Character string verification technology developed in collaboration with the
Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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YOUR ISP might not have YET installed the Department of Home land
INSecurity's "filter".
Also, the filter is installed on
the main Yahoo Mail Server. For the time being, it does not block messages
posted for other locations, including posts from the groups web page, although
these messages often still go into the spam folder.
It is too late to argue that it does not exist. Hundreds of people have
tested this by tryng to post CERTAIN specific messages from the main Yahoo
Mail Server.
These are a few of the URLS for a few of these CERTAIN specific messages:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/2
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/3
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/6
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/8
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/48
Freedom of speech - Use it or lose it
When they took away the 4th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we didn't deal drugs.
When they took away the 6th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we were innocent.
When they took away the 2nd Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we don't own guns.
Now they have taking away the 1st Amendment,
and very soon,
if we continue to be quiet,
we will have no choice,
but to be continue to be quiet.
"mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"
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