IP: "Artificial intelligence" filter blocks news -- but not smut

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:27:18 -0700
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre@cyberpass.net>
>
>
>Dave:
>
>This is a good story, but it omitted one important fact.
>
>Much of the underlying investigative work was done by Bennett Haselton of 
>Peacefire, not by Wired News.
>
>Peacefire's BAIR page, last updated June 6, is at 
>http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/BAIR/
>
>Much appreciated if you would pass this on, so that credit goes where it 
>is due.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Jim
>
>At 03:19 PM 6/20/2000 -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
>
>>>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:53:37 -0400
>>>To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
>>>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>>>
>>>Some pornographic images BAIR approved as OK and my Perl test-script:
>>>http://www.well.com/user/declan/bair/
>>>********
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36923,00.html
>>>
>>>Smut Filter Blocks All But Smut
>>>by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
>>>
>>>3:00 a.m. Jun. 20, 2000 PDT
>>>When Exotrope Inc. introduced its BAIR smut-blocking
>>>software last year, everyone seemed wowed by the company's
>>>claims of intelligent filtering.
>
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