BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere. Our response to net-censors: Get bent!
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And it's because of stuff like THIS...
They also get stopped by parental control filters...
At fault in most of these cases is a US-based censorware company called Secure Computing, which makes a web-rating product called SmartFilter. But SmartFilter isn't very smart. Secure Computing classifies any site with any nudity -- even Michaelangelo's David appearing on a single page out of thousands -- as a "nudity" site, which means that customers who block "nudity" can't get through.
Sigh...I learned long ago not to use my Norton parental web controls...because they'd block a lot of medical sites...for using words describing genitalia etc.
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