Seth Finkelstein writes “.NU Domain Ltd has issued
a press release
that “Numbers in Secure Computing Study on Web Porn
Were Fabricated and Defame the Tiny Nation of Niue”. It explains that for
censorware:
“The more Web pages it can list in its filter the more
protection it can claim to be providing, so in an apparent attempt
boost the count, Secure Computing has included thousands of inactive
and expired domain names, and the millions of Web pages associated
with them, in its SmartFilter(R) v4 Control List. “The number of
pornographic Web pages it has listed as being associated with the
domain name is wildly inflated as a result,” said
[President of
Huh?
But . . . that would be unethical.
Re: Censorware Company’s Study Results
The text on which Seth bases his post (“The more Web pages it can list in its filter”) is free-lance editorializing by the article’s author. Seth, was this the best you could do on this study?
Any comment on the SCOTUS opinion that filtering software represents a more attractive (less restrictive, more efficient) alternative to COPA?