RE: Websense and political censorship

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

"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
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Gadi Evron
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:29 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
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

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