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This morning I sat down to work on my next book. In the introduction I talk about teaching children to tie their shoe laces. So I wanted to get a few interesting links about shoe laces. I went to Hotbot and typed in the keywords, shoe and laces. Here are the first two hits I got. 1. Bootlaces and shoelaces by mailorder. 2. Shoe Laces Now in order to see why this qualifies for the filtering follies, you have to visit both sites and keep in mind that the FIRST site was BLOCKED and the SECOND site was NOT BLOCKED --------------------- Well, about ten minutes after I posted this update, messages started coming in. It seems that other filters weren't blocking the first page but others were. Since some of you can't see one page or the other, here is a description of the two sites. http://www.bootlaces.com/ is a mail order catalog of shoe laces without even so much as an image other than the company logo. http://users.powernet.co.uk/wingett/articles.htm
is a page that is a cute parody. That had five different captioned pictures of "Alternative Laces" such as this. Granted, it you check out the rest of the site, you would find that it is a rather detailed history of high heels and does contain some R-rated pictures, but nothing pornographic. All of the pictures are related to the text and the text is academic in nature and not suggestive in any way. The CyberNot list in CyberPatrol 4.0, SonicWall and Raptor block the first site.but not the second. But CyberPatrol 5.0 blocks neither site. Another reader noted that XStop, set to block ONLY pornography didn't block the first site but blocked this one. Websense, Bess, and IGear also block the second site, but not the first.. Before this is over, the Abbott and Costello routine of Who's on First, may make sense! If you can add to this list, please send a message to follies@oii.org [ BACK ] |
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