IP: IT: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:17:11 -0500
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: IT: New Anticensorware Report: BESS vs Image Search Engines

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 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:17:11 -0500
 From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com>
 To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list <infothought@sethf.com>
 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.
 
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