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Internet filter "Smartfilter", censors political incorrect websites

Gary | 17.08.2006 23:39

Here is this so called "filtering techonology" being used in corporations and schools to filter internet access and out of curiosity I tried to see how alicelovers.com webpage is classified, go and guess that the classification is on section "Extreme Pornography" of course blocked access.

Then I go and try webpage www.horror.org which is association of horror stories writers, and that only gets an "entertainment" classification.

And that is one of the main problems of filtering technologies who decides what is what? Something that to me is art for another is "extreme pornography" and something that for me is horror for others is "entertainment". So under the guise of childrens protection this Smartfilter gets away with internet censorship, because they may agree or not agree with VoA oppinions but it is still that, oppinions and debate and anyone suggesting this website is "extreme pornography" is a twat bent on censoring oppinions camouflaging them with claims of some inexistent pornography, and saying that the non existent pornography is "extreme" just the ice on the cake.

I would imagine they did not dare put alicelovers.com under the "political incorrect" classification as someone can call them censors. And who knows how many political incorrect websites are out there classified under "extreme porn".

You can test a particular page classification in Smartfilter here:

 http://www.securecomputing.com/sfwhere/index.cfm

And you can get around stupid filters with Peacefire here:
 http://www.peacefire.org

Gary
- Homepage: http://www.alicelovers.com

Comments

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Girl love???

18.08.2006 07:07

Fuck off. This Alice-lovers crap is just a step removed from child porn. Look at the quote below. I'd recommend the Indy moderators boot this ASAP.

'Visions of Alice provides a safe, supportive, and legal environment where Girl-Lovers and others interested in Girl-Love can share thoughts, opinions, feelings, and experiences. The forum is an online meeting places where questions, advice, and debate take place freely in an atmosphere of comfort and mutual respect, and where educational material and information about Girl-love can be shared.'

Ketlan


"Gary"

18.08.2006 12:09

Glitter?

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get yer rocks off gary

18.08.2006 12:17

Internet censorship is restricting access to paedophile sites from schools ? Whatever next.
It seems even on Indymedia you are persecuted for your political beliefs. It's an injustice, all you are looking for is a bit of respect for your sexual freedom. Is it anyones business what goes on between a consenting adult and a young girl in the privacy of a school-changing room? You should form your own political party like they have in Holland.
 http://www.itv.com/news/world_2055057.html

Of course, raping children isn't the ultimate taboo anymore, it's passe nowadays. If you really want to get your rocks off then there really is only one option you really should try soon if you hve the balls :
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12120975&dopt=Abstract
self castration
1. To remove one's own genitals with a knife or their teeth.

passe


IMHO

18.08.2006 12:23

First of all, I believe it beyond the state of the art (beyond what AI can do at the present time) to have filters based on analysis of content. Search for keywords, yes, but even then context is important and words are flexible. So all that can be done now is for some humans to look and make the judgement.

So I did.

MAN -- that's SICK! The site suggested is not "borderline" porn by US laws and mores but definitely over the "kiddie porn" line. I mean REAL peadophilia (as opposed to simply in the legal sense)

And no -- I do NOT consider real art to be porn regardless of law.

Mike Novack
mail e-mail: stepbystpefarm mtdata.com


Against all internet filters

18.08.2006 13:32

It looks as soon as you see something you consider "sick" you go and support internet filtering, is not like the poster is deffending Girl Love or anything like that, this has to do with a company called Smartfilter that has put a website in the "extreme pornography" category when A) The site contains no porn B) The site is 100% legal.

So I wonder what is next? We could put all the neonazi websites in the extreme porn category and filter them as they all sick too, and then someone will come out will say lets put all those terrorist supportters or Indys in the extreme porn too, or lets put that anarchist thugs in the same category.

Summing up, there is a company "Smartfilter" classifying websites that they do not like into the "extrem porn" even thought that is a lie, who can support that? And what is next?

If you want to filter alicelovers.com fair enough but do not go around lying to people saying it is extreme porn, come clean and say "they support girl love so we filter them". Fucking liers.

Emma


Filtering occurs at every level of the ISO model

18.08.2006 20:01

A girl is a child. A man who loves a child is known as a girl-lover if you want to be gender specific, but most people know them under the gender-neutral term paedophile. Paedophile means child-lover. You are defending paedophillia.

A website that publishes pictures of children could indeed be innocent, and to suggest otherwise could indeed be to impugn the motives of an innocent adult. But as an adult you have to ask yourself, 'What are the fucking odds ?'

Men who consider themselves 'girl-lovers' daily manipulate children into sexual conduct. Daily they kidnap them, drug them, rape them and often murder them. So balancing the chances Gary is an innocent compared to Gary being a potential child-rapist, it seems rational to criticise him and extremely dodgy to support him - can I ask you, are you opposed to sex with minors or not ?

I can accept certain sexual deviancies but paedophillia is more damaging than most. I can forgive a necrophilliac interfering with the corpse of my mother sooner than forgiving a pederast buggering the daughter of my worst enemy. Gary was attacking schools limiting access to a paedophile site. Why stop at giving paedophiles access to the classroom via the internet, why not invite the 'gorl-lovers' into the girls shower rooms at schools ?

Gary, if you truly love young girls then cut off your balls tonight for their sake - even if you are innocent just now you are doomed to rape and perhaps murder those you 'love'.

alice


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