[LINK] Green light for internet filter plans

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Dec/16, at 9:58 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what 3% of
>> all web pages is.   A quick and lazy google leads to an answer of
>> about 30 Billion.  Let's see 3% of say 30 Billion web pages is around
>> 900 Million web pages blocked unnecessarily.
>
> But 3% of a blocklist containing 1000000 URLs is 30000.

It wasn't 3% of the blocklist, it was 3% of innocuous sites that  
shouldn't be blocked.

> Testing was also undertaken against a list of content, prepared by  
> Enex, considered to
> be innocuous and which should not be blocked by a filter. All  
> participants experienced
> some level of over-blocking in this test (i.e. blocking of some  
> legitimate URLs). All
> filters blocked less than 3.4 percent of such content.

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>
> I don't think the blocklist will contain 30 x 10^9 URLs!
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
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