A few weeks ago I was looking at the website error logs and noticed some attempts to access images with names like /flash/images/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ans3.jpg. I got around to looking at it today, and all of them are the same name, all of them from browsers looking at my profile of the Teen Titans, which includes an image called teentitans3.jpg.
I finally realized what’s going on. Some moronic filter has broken up the name not as “teen titans” but as “teen tit ans,” decided it must be porn, and replaced the “offending” words with spaces (%20 is the code for a space in a URL).
It really makes me wonder how badly mangled the page looks to these people, especially if it turns out that every instance of the team’s name gets pointlessly erased.
Further reading: The Censorware Project, Peacefire, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Silly censors, tits can’t be hid!
On a similar note, one of the major authors of SpamAssassin just discovered that his personal website has been blocked by SonicWall as porn.
Hyperborea.org is currently listed as Category 14 – Arts and Entertainment.
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