Internet Filter Gamer Identified

Robert Spencer's blog Jihad Watch and many other blogs, including The Jawa Report and Hot Air have recently been blocked by several popular internet filters. I felt we were the victims of people gaming the system. That is people who go around flagging absolutely everything they disagree with.

It appears at least one internet filter, Webwasher has removed Jihad Watch from their master list. I've not checked on Jawa, but I do know who is behind it. Legions smelly hippies and Islamist supporters with nothing to do but sit around flagging righty blogs all day.

Via Vigilant Freedom: You get the jist of it. Of course they didn’t do that, because the boobs at Webwasher don’t want to eliminate their clients’ employees access to all discussions of religion, politics or news of the day, only those which don’t coincide with whatever Multicultural nonsense they were raised on. Note this isn’t the first time that this company has been found to being doing this sort of censorship on the sly either.

UPDATE: It appears that the ban has now been lifted. The censors have apparently repented and learned the error of their ways. For now.

OK now, look in the coments near the bottom.

It's Reverend Jim of http://hatewatchhallofshame.blogspot.com/

Via Reverend Jim's blog: WebWasher has blocked the hate speech sites of HotAir and MEMRI, and that the Foehammer's Anvil hate speech site has also been blocked or banned as hate speech by site monitoring services, and that other web filtering services are in the process of blocking Jihad Watch

Hot Air? MEMRI? hate speech?

I took a tour around hatewatch, it is a blog mostly dedicated to hating Robert Spencer and how the noble savages are the real victims. I was offended by this so, I flagged it ;).

Oh and he put up his email up so you can,you know, ask questions.

revjimsutter@gmail.com

You know it's funny. A lefty blog was just criticizing TJR for our campaign against the Taliban websites. Free speech they said, how dare we use our speech to complain to internet providers about hosting terrorist websites in the USA. Go Figure. Right on cue Reverend Jim took down this post(image of post), I took it from the google cache real quick before it updated. Acutally I probably would not have written this post but that makes me think Rev Jim is trying to hide something.

Good News on Spreading Ban of Hate Speech Site

Good News! Getting the word out about the dangers of hate mongers is working!

Over the past few days, we have received encouraging news that more and more corporations, agencies, and Internet filtering systems are blacklisting or banning access to Jihad Watch, properly identifying it as a hate speech site. First, we received word that Spencer's Jihad Watch site has, in very recent days, been blocked or banned by: City of Chicago, Chicago Police, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Site Coach (an Internet filtering program), GE, JP Morgan Chase, Defense Finance and Accounting Services, the U.S. Government, the Dept of Defense, Goldman Sachs, MSNBC, AFSCME, Marriott Corp., American Airlines, the State of Connecticut, Johnson Controls, Boeing, Tenet Hospitals (North Carolina), Provisio, the Sabre Group TSG, and Wachovia Bank.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017237.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017242.php

Now we've received an update on the rapidly spreading ban on Jihad Watch. It has now been including in the commercial filtering of Secure Computing's "WebWasher" as hate speech. This means that WebWasher's 19,000 customers, supported by a worldwide network of partners, include the majority of the Dow Jones Global 50 and the most prominent organizations in banking, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, public utilities, and federal and local governments, will now be blocking access to Jihad Watch. We have also learned that WebWasher has blocked the hate speech sites of HotAir and MEMRI.

Good job, and Congratulations to those who had the good sense to ban hate speech, recognizing that hate speech often leads to extremism, and extremism very often leads to terrorism. Secure Computing's Webwasher seems to be the most alert program to use for filtering Internet content from obscenities, hate speech, and other unwanted sites.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017263.php

Update: I misspelled Vigilant Freedom's Blog title, apologies

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