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Atlee

6th June 2010, 21:03

28350

7th June 2010, 04:21

Same shit at my school.

WEBSENSE HAS FILTERED THIS BECAUSE IT CONTAINS OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT:
RACISM / HATE

Good thing I know how to SSH

leftace53

8th June 2010, 00:51

did you check something like stormfront?

blocking revleft is just not cool, we're not "hate" or "racism" :(

The Ben G

8th June 2010, 01:04

did you check something like stormfront?

blocking revleft is just not cool, we're not "hate" or "racism" :(

Maybe twards Fascists and Capitalists.

¿Que?

8th June 2010, 01:28

Same shit at my school.

WEBSENSE HAS FILTERED THIS BECAUSE IT CONTAINS OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT:
RACISM / HATE

Good thing I know how to SSH
Damn straight! I used to use ssh to tunnel out of a work proxy. What do you use for a proxy host?

Salyut

8th June 2010, 02:52

Damn straight! I used to use ssh to tunnel out of a work proxy. What do you use for a proxy host?

I paid like two dollars for a shell account in Frankfurt. Tunneling and irssi resulted. Good times. :thumbup1:

Atlee

8th June 2010, 06:51

did you check something like stormfront?

blocking revleft is just not cool, we're not "hate" or "racism" :(

As much as I'd like to say, "It should be obvious." :rolleyes: I did not check that site. :blushing: Stormfront is not something I often think about.:blink:

Uppercut

17th June 2010, 03:48

It's funny because my old high school blocked most forums and message boards, but I could easily get on revleft.

praxis1966

19th June 2010, 01:19

I went to look for some new electronics this past week to find if there were any good sale items I might want. I stepped up to a fully on-line computer and typed in several popular Leftist websites. No problem, right? When I typed in revleft.com I got a block message stating that RevLeft was "hate" and "adult" in content. Not even my public library blocks RevLeft.

Probably the same reason some people in my home town wanted The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn removed from school reading lists for reasons of racism. Believe it or not, there was actually a national furor over it and the parents doing the complaining, along with their child's teacher and the superintendent of schools at the time, all wound up on Oprah.

That's the long answer. The short answer? Stupidity.

Hiratsuka

27th June 2010, 05:38

You typed a politically-sensitive web address into a storefront computer and are surprised that it's blocked...?

Atlee

27th June 2010, 22:03

You typed a politically-sensitive web address into a storefront computer and are surprised that it's blocked...?
No, I was surprised at what it read to justify blocking. Most places read "Blocked" and nothing more.

Asphodel

28th June 2010, 00:14

Does the blocker have a separate category of "politically-sensitive?" Maybe it doesn't, and the closest alternative, albeit inaccurate, was "Racism/Hate." I mean, when most people think of politically-sensitive they think of neofascists, which are inherently full of racism and hate.

Hiratsuka

28th June 2010, 01:06

Those programs aren't semantic. Since we have an entire forum devoted to racism and sexism, it probably just interpreted the links and words as being pro-discriminatory.

danyboy27

28th June 2010, 01:14

you guys really dont know how it work.

the classification of a website is mainly determined by the kind of word and sentences and their combination you can find in it. for exemple, on revleft, you have the world revolution, fascism, racism, hate, hatred, scum, bullshit, and many other.

so basicly, its not biaised, those classification are determined by internet bots scanning website for words and sentences, and after a deep analisys of the website in question came out with a result that is then fowarded to the main bank of blacklisted website.

really, its that simple.