Coming up next in the blog censorship rogue’s gallery: SurfControl

For rolling updates on this topic:
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We have won one battle!

An Anvil Victory against Censorship: a Victory for All confirms that SonicWALL and Panera Bread will no longer be censoring Foehammer’s Anvil. 1389 would like to thank all of you who participated in this effort.

But the war is far from over.

“The war is far from over? What’s that supposed to mean?”

It means that this is not the time for us to rest.

Here’s an excerpt from the comments that follow the above article:

# 2 ISLAMSFORLOSERS (US) Aug 28th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

Good news! However, for what it’s worth SurfControl blocks access to this site and now to Jihad Watch as well. Makes one wonder who owns these gatekepers of the Internet. It wouldn’t be surprising if the dirty oil money of Riyadh is behind a lot of this.

# 3 Sounder (Canada) Aug 28th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

Here we go again! Go to the Surf Control site and select “Test A Site” on the menu. Proceed from there.

• Foehammer.net is currently rated “Games” right now.
• Jihad Watch is currently rated “Intolerance & Hate”
• Dhimmi Watch is currently rated “is not in our list”

Surf Control defines Intolerence & hate as follows:

• Advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation
• Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and/or exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation
• Holocaust revisionist/denial sites and other revisionist sites that encourage hate
• Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang* or cult**
• Militancy, extremist
• Flagrantly insensitive or offensive material, including lack of recognition or respect for opposing opinions and beliefs

NOTE: We do not include news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).

*A gang is defined as: a group whose primary activities are the commission of felonious criminal acts, which has a common name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in criminal activity in the name of the group.

**A cult is defined as: a group whose followers have been deceptively and manipulatively recruited and retained through undue influence such that followers’ personalities and behavior are altered. Leadership is all-powerful, ideology is totalistic, and the will of the individual is subordinate to the group. Sets itself outside of society.

Again, all Foehammer readers please go to the site and suggest a new category. Do the same for Jihad Watch.

They apparently do not have email address collection or a auto-responder set up to respond to you.

# 4 Sounder (Canada) Aug 28th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

ISLAMSFORLOSERS Thanks for pointing this problem out!

Here’s what to do now:

1. Visit the Surf Control site.
2. Select “Test a Site” from the menu at the top.
3. Suggest a more accurate classification for Foehammer.net and for Jihadwatch.com.
4. Test some other sites, and if you find any more that are wrongly classified, please select more accurate classifications for them also.
5. Bookmark this link for rolling updates:
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