Internet Rights and Blog Censorship In Vancouver
By dfred on April 6, 2008 - 10:16am
If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service to block access to any particular blog, ezvancouver.com might be one of them. Here is an excerpt of a press comment from a US source:
"THERE are lots of ways to describe the new ezvancouver blog, the Web's obliquely subtitled "The Vancouver Blog Everyone Talks About" which already attracts hundreds of thousands of eyeballs worldwide to its unappeasable, digital scroll of high-weirdness.
It’s a site where, on a given Friday morning, there were links to video games that helps kids to brush their teeth, Internet rights for Canadian bloggers, “a new design for a washing machine and a toilet all in one” and a new Body Armor T-Shirt made in Japan.
But nudity?
"Access denied by a software filter content category," was the message an engineer in downtown Vancouver said he received last Wednesday when he tried to visit ezvancouver.com from his office computer. A colleague recommended the site to him because there was an interesting post. The message he got is the following: "The requested URL belongs to the following categories: Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies, Nudity."
Yep.
