Popular Conservative Site Blocked as “Hate Speech”
Posted on April 25, 2007
We read:
“American Airlines’ Admirals Club has installed software that blocks access to WorldNetDaily.com, the Internet’s leading independent news site, for reasons of “hate” and “violence.”
It’s the second situation regarding a computer block WND has encountered in recent weeks. Earlier, the military provider that makes Internet services available to U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine bases worldwide admitted that WND had been blocked. A WND reader reported that he had tried to access the news site at the airline’s facility for priority customers at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
Jarrod Reswebber, a spokesman for the airline, said the “people there” told him the issue involved filters on the system. He said airline officials now have begun working with the vendor who runs the filtering system, a third-party company, to submit the WND address for “consideration.”
How “considerate” of Mr. Reswebber! How many other conservative sites are being blocked by the same software?
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Hate speech? I suppose you can easily access Dailykos or the dumocrap underground though, right? If they want hate speech, all they need to do is go there.
Can anyone tell me what Pat Penobscott is trying to write
In defense of American Airlines, (and as a computer security professional who knows) content filters are notoriously difficult to “tweak” so you can block what really needs to be blocked and not suffer collateral damage. OTOH, the Admirals Club is for customers, so why they would be blocking there is an exercise for someone with more knowledge of AA’s internal policies and network topology.