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See as background: "Court denies DOJ request to block filtering lawsuit" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02314.html "Philadelphia judges OK library filtering case for 2002 trial" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02298.html Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho have coauthored a recent report on filtering software: http://www.ncac.org/issues/internetfilters.html And John Levine points out that "safesurf's mail server 63.107.146.25 is misconfigured as an open relay and appears on several blocking lists other than MAPS." -Declan --- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:40:52 -0500 From: Ben Edelman <edelman@law.harvard.edu> To: declan@well.com Subject: RE: Filtering software fans complain that -- they're being filtered! Declan, Though the debate may be old and tired, it's surely helpful and of interest to review new data that informs discussion of the flaws of Internet filtering programs. In this context, I think you & your readers may interested in the expert report I recently finished for the ACLU's challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act. This work includes an original list of some 6000+ sites blocked by four Internet filtering programs that, by and large, fail to meet the category definitions of these programs. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/mul-v-us/ Ben Edelman Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School Declan McCullagh wrote: > [There seems to be little interesting to say about filtering software > and ratings anymore -- it's an old and a tired, debate. But a > censorware proponent complaining about being, well, censored does seem > a bit much. --Declan] --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------