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We have now received an interesting bit of information from Foehammer’s Anvil, that two of these companies are merging. See WebSense to Acquire Surfcontrol. According to the press release from WebSense, part of their interest in SurfControl is:
All of SurfControl’s solutions for Web, e-mail and endpoint security are backed by industry-leading threat detection technologies, delivered by SurfControl’s Global Threat Experts who work 24/7 to provide customers with dynamic zero-day protection. The company protects more than 16 million users in over 25,000 customers worldwide, and employs more than 600 people in offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific.
The acquisition is scheduled for completion on October 2nd and 3rd. LittleGreenFootballs.com, which previously had been blocked by WebSense, but had managed to get itself re-categorized earlier this year, is now receiving reports that it’s being blocked as pornography by WebSense. Is it possible that the merging of these two databases is causing the problem, or is it something else? It remains to be seen what affect the merger of these two web-filtering giants will have on freedom of access to information via the Internet in many public places.
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What a great job you are doing on this!
I administer both a Websense console and a Surfcontrol console. The company provided default “black lists” for both of these products can be “gamed” by savy administrators. In addition to the automatic updates by Websense that block known malware sites and such administrators can submit sites to the list or apply to have sites already in the list recategorized. A site like LGF can go from existing in the “news” category (allowed) to the “hate speech” category (blocked) fairly easily. I seriously doubt it’s evidence of a malicious move by Websense, they are typically a very professional organization in my experience and should respond to requests by Charles Johnson to have LGF moved back into a benign category.
It’s dirty pool, but it’s how the Left plays the game, “Free Speech for me but not for Thee” and all that.
The Left is quickly turning into a pack of seditionists, traitors and fascists.
Keep up the much needed work, 1389!
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