IP: SmartFilter's Greatest Evils - censorware & privacy/anonymity

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

>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 03:16:12 -0500 (EST)
>From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
>Available at   http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greatestevils.php
>
>SmartFilter's Greatest Evils
>
>An anticensorware investigation by Seth Finkelstein
>
>Abstract: This paper examines what the censorware product SmartFilter
>considered to be the worst websites, as measured by the number of categories
>under which the site was blacklisted. It was discovered that two broad
>classes of websites were maximally blacklisted. These were privacy/anonymity
>service sites, and language-translation services. In retrospect, this is in
>fact an obvious requirement of censorware, as any private or anonymous
>browsing ability is antithetical to the goal of control in censorware.
>
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>Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf@sethf.com  http://sethf.com



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