Whoops -- Safesearch users unable to access "White HouseFree Live Webcam"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Christian Huitema <huitema () windows microsoft com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:56:59 -0700
To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: RE: [IP] Safesearch users unable to access "White HouseFree Live
Webcam"

Dave,

 

The site www.whitehouse.com <http://www.whitehouse.com/>  is a porn site.
They managed to grab a good looking DNS name, I believe in an attempt to
increase their hit rate.

 

-- Christian Huitema

 


From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:18 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Safesearch users unable to access "White HouseFree Live
Webcam"

 

One is temped to say that some stuff that comes out of the White House is
not fit for any ears ‹ children or adult. Djf (my politics may be showing
:-)


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From: Dispatch Editor Silicon Valley <dispatch-svc () KNIGHTRIDDER COM>

Safesearch users unable to access "White House Free Live Webcam": Google's
SafeSearch, a feature designed to shield children from porn sites, may be
preventing children from viewing a number of harmless Web sites as well.
This according to a new report from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society 
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/google-safesearch/> , which
notes that SafeSearch blocks sites created by the White House, IBM, the
American Library Association, and Nashville Public Library's teen health
issues page. 

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/google-safesearch/


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