Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:28:19 -0500 From: Seth Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Gaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IT: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:17:11 -0500 From: Seth Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines Available at: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/image.php BESS vs Image Search Engines Abstract: This report investigates how N2H2's censorware treats several image search engines. N2H2/BESS turns out to blacklist popular general image searching sites as "Pornography". The cached images held by such sites are probably the cause. This is discussed as a deep dilemma of censorware, where general search facilities may be considered as tainted if they contain any cached forbidden material. -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sethf.com Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************
