Seth Finkelstein writes “Following-up the recent decision for the
Supreme Court to Review CIPA (Federal censorware law), I’ve
revised and updated my censorware report:
BESS’s Secret LOOPHOLE: (censorware vs. privacy and anonymity
This report described a then-secret category, which could
never be unbanned, in the censorware program BESS (made by N2H2),
which blacklisted sites such as anonymizer/privacy sites, language
translation sites, even helped checking the design of web pages.
The update adds new examples, and has been revised with more
discussion of the legal implications of this banning. This includes
mention in expert-witness testimony in the CIPA case, and connection
to the lower-court decision which
struck down
that law. “
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