[LINK] Minister warned on porn filters

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
>> I'll never forget the day that an ex-boss complained bitterly about her 
>> exclusion from various mailing lists and more, based purely on the fact 
>> that the first six letters of her e-mail address just happened to be 
>> 'virgin'.
>
> I see your virgin and up you by one pair of pants or panties.
>
> We were one day looking up pantone colours, but the sites kept getting
> blocked. The reason, we later found out, was that the prefix 'pant-' was
> on a very simplistic blacklist. 
> GIGO anyone?

I lurk on a forum in the UK for electronic music.   They have a word 
filter that turns "pakistan" into "****stan" because in the UK 
the altered part is a racist slur.   But it makes it extremely 
difficult to discuss current global matters and it is also a 
kind of implied slur in being filtered.


rachel

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