January 21, 2007

StopTheACLU.Com Blocked By Filtering Company

On the basis, I would presume, that it is a porn site!

After all, how else do you explain its classification as "Adult/Mature Content"?

News Bukit has the story.

So I'm sitting at my favorite Panera/St. Louis Bread Company, eating and mooching Internet. Uneventful, I know. That, of course, is not the story.

The story is that when I went to check out what was new at StoptheACLU.com, a fellow conservative blogger, I was greeted with this message from the restaurant's filtering service.

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"Forbidden category," eh? I was intrigued. Blogs are a forbidden category?

Apparently not, because when I went to the SonicWALL link to have the site reconsidered, guess what I found out?

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You read that right: "Adult/Mature Content." Looks like a Moonbat has been here. Maybe from StopStoptheACLU.com?

I've entered a request to get it unblocked. Click here to add your voice, too. Don't know how many of these have been locked out, but I'll update if I see any more.

I urge all of you to click the link above and request that SonicWall fix this rating, and allow the free-flow of information to its users.

UPDATE -- 1/23/2007: SonicWall will not budge, refusing to reclassify StopTheACLU.com.

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support:
Rate stoptheaclu.com as "25.Political/Advocacy Groups" at 2007-01-21 10:25:00.247

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
"6.Adult/Mature Content" at 2007-01-23 03:28:59.453

You should see this rating change reflected within 1 to 3 business days.

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support

Keep writing -- keep pushing -- keep supporting free speech and an end to political censorship by web-filtering companies.

UPDATE 2 --1/23/2007: On the other hand, they seem to have changed their mind, based upon this email just forwarded to me.

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support:
Rate stoptheaclu.com as "25.Political/Advocacy Groups" at 2007-01-23 11:25:00.660

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
"25.Political/Advocacy Groups, 16.Abortion/Advocy Groups" at 2007-01-23 13:40:03.437

You should see this rating change reflected within 1 to 3 business days.

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support

So I guess that persistence does pay off!

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1 Thanks for the alert. I went in and added my 2 cents worth. Told them they had better not lose their credibility too! Now someone needs to look into who is behind Sonicwall!

Posted by: Faultline USA at Sun Jan 21 10:07:09 2007 (zYlg4)

2 The whole thing is just odd.

Don't they check the sites before assigning a category?

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sun Jan 21 11:32:33 2007 (EZzSf)

3 Yea! It looks like they've changed the rating. Good job!

Posted by: Deb at Sun Jan 21 18:57:26 2007 (jkWU6)

4 No, they haven't, Deb. I just went to them and found them listed as Adult/Mature Content, just as before.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sun Jan 21 22:40:46 2007 (1V38p)

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