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Subject: "Family Friendly" vs. "Adult" -- a new study on profitablity

XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Jun 07, 2005 ยท 43 posts


elizabyte posted Sat, 11 June 2005 at 10:31 PM

The porn-blockers don't seem to be that smart. Want to find out about breast cancer? Or you're searching for pictures of fortifications and typed in "breastworks"? My husband used to live and work at a residential college which employed a type of blocking system that looked for words and blocked them. He was the sysadmin (although he didn't set up the filter; he had no choice in the matter) and would frequently get complaints from people who couldn't access perfectly legitimate materials for one reason or another, and he'd have to manually unblock the site so people could get to it. The most ridiculous one that I personally saw was a theology student looking up the online version of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, which is one of the best known concordances of the Bible (King James version, anyway). The filter wouldn't allow access to it, and my husband unblocked it but couldn't figure out why it was blocked. Turns out that Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, if you're a really dumb filter, has the word "sex" in the middle... strongSEXhaustiveconcordance Not really on topic, but Antonia's examples reminded me of this one and I thought I'd share (although, of course, you have to admit, the Bible really IS full of all kinds of extraordinary violence, sex - some of it pretty perverted IMHO -, adult themes, drinking, the list just goes on... ;-) bonni

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