April 8, 2003

I censor, because I'm poor

Ehsan, a Tehran-based Bloggers writes that some Iranian ISPs have banned users to access Nedstat, a free stats server that bloggers use to track the number of their visitors. They get the following message:

Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason:
Forbidden, this page (http://www.nedstatbasic.net/) is categorized as: Sex.
Generated Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:16:17 GMT by cache4 (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)

Later on, Hamid explains that this happens because they are using a free software, called Squid, in order to filter inappropriate websites. Since they use an inaccurate open-source blacklist wich is freely published as well, this website is categorized as a porn site and it is banned.

Posted by hoder at April 8, 2003 9:48 PM

Comments
thanks for blogsky
- By: mehran on April 9, 2003
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