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.

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