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Re: Internet filters
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.145
Date: Monday, December 27, 1999, at 21:03:36
In Reply To: Re: Internet filters posted by MageLord on Monday, December 27, 1999, at 13:25:07:

> > Back when I worked for an investment bank, I was frequently blocked from an insane number of web sites -- going to one would bring up a message about how the site I was attempting to access contained sex material or criminal skills materials (all contained in a H1 tag). This was for such sites as wiretap.spies.com (a site that contained a listing of arcade video games), The Onion (which does have some naughty words), and Hotmail.
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> > -Faux "back from vacation" Pas
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> Actually, I had a website bookmarked a while ago that talked about how the Cybersitter filter program was pretty insane about the websites it blocked.
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> The best example I remember is that it blocked websites that had the word "mistress" anywhere in it, thus denying access to all websites where the word "webmistress" could be found, regardless of its contents or information.

Well, the filter in question blocked us from Virgin Interactive Entertainment (a game publishing company) for what could only be the negligible fault of having the word "virgin" in its name...