bOingbOing blOcked in brItain
During a massive layover at Heathrow, I tried to check Boing Boing and found that a filter installed on their public access internet terminals was blocking the site. I guess this is interesting for a couple reasons:
- Boing Boing posted about it, resulting in more than 3000 views of the screencap on flickr, which is more views than all the rest of my flickr photostream combined.
- BB was blocked for exceeding a ‘weighted phrase limit’. I’m not sure how blocking sites with high use of the words ‘DRM’, ‘Disney’, and ‘Ukulele’ is going to protect me from anything harmful.. Also, I’m not sure there are any words out there than can hurt me.. OMG SCARY WEIGHTED PHRASES!
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