>e.g. a simple block of the word "sex" will block all sites referring to
>the English counties "Sussex" and "Essex" and so on - which would be
>extremely annoying for a student doing a research project on history or
>geography of England.
>
>it would also block sex-education sites and information about safe sex
>and many other legitimate health/medical sites.
>
>there are many other words which contain the letters "s", "e", and "x"
>which would also be blocked.
And I got bitten by this a few days ago when I discovered that work had
blocked all domain names with the word 'sex' in them. This was funny until
I tried to visit 'www.ExpertsExchange.com' - an online tech community. The
proxy blocked me because it thought I was going to
'www.expertSEXchange.com'. I then checked to see if I could get to ten.com
(porn site). Yup, not a problem.
I'm sure most people around here have a similar story. Censorware isn't
just useless, it's often an impediment.
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