The Digital Freedom Network has Winners of the Foil the Filters Contest posted.
Grand Prize — Joe J. reports being prevented from accessing his own high school’s Web site from his own high school’s library. Carroll High School adopted filtering software which blocked \”all questionable material.\” This included the word \”high.\”
Runner-Up –You wouldn\’t think someone named Hillary Anne would have censorware problems, but all attempts to register [email protected] were rejected because censorware spotted the hidden word \”aryan.\” Hillary says \”I had to email and fight the system like crazy to actually be able to use my registered nickname again.\”
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