You’ll be surprised to hear why Panera Bread and SonicWALL blacklisted Foehammer’s Anvil!

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As I explained earlier this week, SonicWALL is a company that provides content-filtering or “censorware” for the WiFi system at Panera Bread. They’ve been blocking access to the antijihadist site Foehammer’s Anvil, with no explanation given, so I blogged the contact information for both companies, and emailed them to complain about this inexcusable censorship.

I got a response back from Panera Bread telling me to use this form to ask SonicWALL to reevaluate any sites that were wrongly blocked. So I went over there and entered the URL for the Anvil…

Here’s what I saw!

Yep, that’s right – SonicWALL has been censoring the Anvil as pornography. Of course, if anybody at SonicWALL had actually bothered to check the Anvil for raunchy videos or ribald humor, they would’ve been awfully disappointed.

Evidently, if some anonymous liar tells SonicWALL that a blog is pornographic, that’s all it takes to get it blocked from a whole lot of places. No inspection, no notification, no appeals process. Several months later, when the blogger is losing traffic and figures that somebody may be interfering with access to the blog, then maybe the truth will come to light. But by that time, the blog owner will already have lost readership and money.

If you’re a blogger, the same thing could happen to your blog. Even if you are not a blogger yourself, and even if you never heard of Foehammer’s Anvil before, the same thing could happen to other blogs that are full of valuable information that you have every right to read.

So go ahead and use this form to tell Sonic Wall to reclassify Foehammer’s Anvil. Obviously, the more people contact them, the better!

But even if they do, the matter doesn’t end there. Clearly, SonicWALL is not the only “censorware” company that has been blocking antijihadist sites.

“What else can I do?”

• Pass the link to this article along to your family and friends.
  • Ask them to use this form to contact SonicWALL about Foehammer’s Anvil and any other site that they might be censoring.
• Find out whether these sites are blocked where you work, study, or use WiFi:
  • Foehammer’s Anvil
  • The Religion of Peace
  • Jihad Watch
  • The Jawa Report
  • Any other antijihadist sites that you want to access.
• If antijihadist websites are blocked:
  • Try to find out what type of censorware or content filtering system is blocking your access.
• Here are two quick ways to pass this information along to us:
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