TechFold - Bold tech & web commentary

Bold tech & web commentary

TechFold is technology discussion, commentary, reviews, and opinions from well outside the valley. There's no koolaid to drink here, and TechFold is not in SL, or on Twitter.

Censorship Nation

I just wanted to point out that Boing Boing is banned on Boston muni-fi stations. Gizmodo asks if they are in the US or China.

Ok - fine, Boston uses some keyword parsing auto-censoring system, and given BoingBoing’s diverse subject matter, it tripped the filter - this is hardly punishement for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force thing, or some right-wing conspiracy against the libertarian blogosphere, or some totalitarian Bush-led junta, or whatever.

That being said: It seems alarming when “protect the children” is used to justify censorship of any kind, much less automated, unsupervised, algorithmic censorship of the entire internet.