Blog censorship update 9/3/07

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Good news! Foehammer has received this reply from SonicWALL:

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support: Rate atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com as “31.Web Communications” at 2007-09-01 17:25:00.257

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
“25.Political/Advocacy Groups” at 2007-09-03 03:20:13.787

You should see this rating change reflected within 1 to 3 business days.

SonicWALL CFS Support

More good news: SurfControl has reclassified Jihad Watch and Doctor Bulldog!

Stein hoist to Sounder and Gramfan for their assistance!

On the other hand…

Secure Computing SmartFilter is blocking The Religion of Peace.

Little Green Footballs appears to be having problems with Websense.

Websense unfortunately requires registration to use their site lookup tool, a policy which is highly objectionable in itself. So much for accountability to the public!

So I used the Websense Email Form to write this note:

It has come to my attention that Websense is blocking the well-respected counterterrorist/antijihadist site, Little Green Footballs (http://littlegreenfootballs.com).

I have also noted that Websense requires registration in order to use the Site Lookup Tool. This is just plain wrong! It discourages public accountability by invading people’s privacy in order to get the information about whether a site they want to access may be misclassified.

Little Green Footballs has been around for a long time. Charles Johnson, who runs the site, does not post or allow to be posted any bigoted or otherwise inappropriate content. It contains nothing that would make it objectionable even for the K-12 environment. Websense should classify it accordingly.

Sites such as Little Green Footballs also contain valuable security information that everybody should know, and that are useful in the corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government environments. In fact, I believe that anybody working at a government site, including state and local governments, as well as schools, should be REQUIRED to view counterterrorist and other security-related sites on a regular basis, because protecting everyone is part of their job!

But when I clicked to send it, the Websense email form rejected it because I had entered a “public” (i.e., web-based) email address. Another barrier to accountability!

Even though I was thoroughly disgusted by that petty little ploy, I went ahead and sent the form, but I had to give a personal email address that I would much rather not have used.

“What’s next?”

• Contact Websense to request that Little Green Footballs be reclassified:
  

  Websense Corporate Headquarters
  Gene Hodges, CEO
  Douglas C. Wride, President and CFO
  10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
  San Diego, California 92121 USA
  Tel: +1 800.723.1166 or +1 858.320.8000
  Fax: +1 858.458.2950
  Websense Email Form
  (Note: Websense does not accept the form if sender’s email address is on a web-based server, such as Yahoo. If that’s a problem, then write or call them up and complain!)

  Investor relations:
  Kate Patterson, VP of Investor Relations
  Tel: 877-273-7379 or 858-320-8072
  Fax: 858-458-2959
  Email: kpatterson@websense.com

• If you are registered at LGF, please post a comment here regarding any information that you obtain.
• Use this form to contact Secure Computing SmartFilter.
  • Request that The Religion of Peace be given a more appropriate classification.
• Find out whether these sites are blocked where you work, study, or use WiFi:
  • Foehammer’s Anvil
  • Little Green Footballs
  • Jihad Watch
  • The Jawa Report
  • Atlas Shrugs
  • Gates of Vienna
  • Winds of Jihad
  • The Religion of Peace
  • Doctor Bulldog
  • Every other antijihadist site that you want to access
• If it appears that antijihadist websites are being blocked:
  • Try to identify the censorware or content filtering system that is blocking your access
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