Comments on: British Airways blocks BoingBoing

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By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:23:53 +0000

This is something you want to make look into more deeply. Not British Airways, but the categorization of ‘personal pages’ as something that ought to be blocked. This has nothing to do with the content at all, but is essentially a characterization of a page as ‘non-commercial’, and hence, something tat should be blocked from being viewed.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:47:51 +0000

The Halifax airport seems to block things based on an almost realtime scan of the pages themselves for “bad” words. I could sometimes get to Craigslist and MetaFilter and sometimes not depending on which pages I was trying to load.

By: david lee king

david lee king — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:42:00 +0000

more interesting is the category the filtering company uses for boing boing – “personal pages.” (i’m ignoring the nudity one).

They have lumped ALL BLOGS into that category. Boing Boing is anything BUT a personal page! It’s more a news site… how interesting.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:55:01 +0000

Yes. This from a long-running blacklisting of Boing Boing by censorware company “Secure Computing” (it’s clear from that screen that British Airways is using them).

Also see my somewhat connected _Guardian_ column:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,,2091306,00.html