Boycott D-LINK

[nate895]

I just got a new internet system that labels the sites listed below as militant extremists, and bigoted in some cases. Blocking of lewrockwell.com is what started me on this mission. I can just unblock the websites that fit that "description," which I have done until I can convince my family to attempt to return the system, but it is about the principle of the thing. If this isn't out of the ordinary for web blocking services, I don't know, but this is the first I have used that does that.

Websites Blocked for Extremism or Hate:

lewrockwell.com
jbs.org (John Birch Society)
http://www.anus.com/etc/texas/ (Texas Secession)
http://www.texasnationalist.com/ (because of pornography? not militant extremism)
http://americanfreepress.net/
dixienet.org (League of the South)

Websites NOT blocked for extremism or hate:

Communist Party
Revolutionary Communist Party: An organization that advocates for the violent overthrow of our government and to replace it with a dicatorship. If that isn't extreme hate, I don't know what is.

I have visited a vast array of websites, and those are the ones I have come up with. If you guys have any that you believe I have not visited, just post it here.

I intend on emailing website owners involved, the company D-LINK, and friendly media once I find all of the ones that are blocked by this service for extremist hate.

[jake]

the filtering list is probably provided by some third party company, any way to find out who?

[Dripping Rain]

wtf :eek:

[nate895]

the filtering list is probably provided by some third party company, any way to find out who?

I am writing a feedback form for them and will hopefully hear back from them and hopefully they can just silently remove the websites from their list. If not, I am hoping there will be some friendly publication of this offense and a mass organized boycott.

[torchbearer]

Please explain this in better detail.
I have tons of D-Link products: NICs, Routers, Switches. None of them filter anything.

[nate895]

Please explain this in better detail.
I have tons of D-Link products: NICs, Routers, Switches. None of them filter anything.

The product is a Rangebooster N DIR-628, and the blocking is optional. The specific program is SECURESPOT. I simply find the labeling of the websites listed as bigoted terrorist (yes, terrorist) extremists is preposterous. I shouldn't have to allow such websites as the Klan, the Nazi Party, and real terrorist organization to access websites like lewrockwell.com.

[torchbearer]

The product is a Rangebooster N DIR-628, and the blocking is optional. The specific program is SECURESPOT. I simply find the labeling of the websites listed as bigoted terrorist (yes, terrorist) extremists is preposterous. I shouldn't have to allow such websites as the Klan, the Nazi Party, and real terrorist organization to access websites like lewrockwell.com.

ah, that's software not hardware. and should be optional.
the filter should allow redaction.
D-link probably bought the software or outsourced its development.
It doesn't have anything to do with their devices.

[nate895]

ah, that's software not hardware. and should be optional.
the filter should allow redaction.
D-link probably bought the software or outsourced its development.
It doesn't have anything to do with their devices.

I know it was the software, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to unblock it so easily, but it still is preposterous to name lewrockwell.com as in association with racist terrorism.

[torchbearer]

I know it was the software, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to unblock it so easily, but it still is preposterous to name lewrockwell.com as in association with racist terrorism.

why did you install the software?

[Dripping Rain]

is stormfront on the list?

[nate895]

why did you install the software?

It is on the net, my parents just logged on and put on the default "adult" settings to make sure we don't accidentally go on any inappropriate websites (the program was put on more for my dad because he's, well, not very welcome here). Little did they know they'd find out lewrockwell.com is racist extremism.

[nate895]

is stormfront on the list?

I assume. I didn't really care to check since that is racist extremism.

[torchbearer]

It is on the net, my parents just logged on and put on the default "adult" settings to make sure we don't accidentally go on any inappropriate websites (the program was put on more for my dad because he's, well, not very welcome here). Little did they know they'd find out lewrockwell.com is racist extremism.

oh, i forgot. Its a parental control thing.
You should notify lewrockwell.com so they can appeal to the software people to be removed.

[Dripping Rain]

I assume. I didn't really care to check since that is racist extremism.

thats why i asked. if a racist website like stormfront isnt on this list then its clearly someone with a keynesian globalist agenda who made the program

[nate895]

oh, i forgot. Its a parental control thing.
You should notify lewrockwell.com so they can appeal to the software people to be removed.

I was going to do just that.

[nate895]

Contact for your approval/disapproval:


Today (Sunday April 19, 2009) I purchased one of your products, the DIR-628 from a Best Buy in Portland, OR. I activated the parental controls on adult not thinking much of it. I then visited a website I have on my favorites list, lewrockwell.com, only to be informed I was attempting to access a militant extremist bigoted website. I didn't know libertarian thinking was such a taboo subject as to be blocked for adults on default parental control settings. The following websites have also been blocked for both militant extremism (Militant/Extremist/Terrorist) and bigotry (Hate and Discrimination):

www.lewrockwell.com, on which some content is written by a sitting member of the United States Congress (Ron Paul, R-TX)
www.jbs.org, the John Birch Society, which contains no violent threats nor racist material
http://www.anus.com/etc/texas/, which advocates for Texan Independence, a cause a recent poll said 20% of Texans believed in, and has no racist material
americanfreepress.net, which has some conspiratorial articles, but none can be construed as inherently racist or militant
dixienet.org, which specifically denies racism on its website
and, texasnationalist.org which is not labeled as extremist or racist, but is somehow associated with pornography?

This is even more disturbing given the fact that the websites of both the Communist Party (http://www.cpusa.org/) and the Revolutionary Communist Party (http://rwor.org/), which believes in the violent overthrow of out government in favor of a communist dictatorship, are both perfectly accessible. If communist revolution isn't violent extremism, I don't know what is.

I will be contacting the webmasters of the sites listed as blocked to attempt to appeal their listings. If that does not work, I will appeal to the American public through the media and organize a boycott of your products.

[specsaregood]

Contact for your approval/disapproval:

http://www.anus.com/etc/texas/, which advocates for Texan Independence, a cause a recent poll said 20% of Texans believed in, and has no racist material


I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm betting that particular site is blocked because of a keyword in the domain....

[nate895]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm betting that particular site is blocked because of a keyword in the domain....

I'd agree, but it is not blocked for "Pornography" or "Dubious" but "Hate and Discrimination" and "Militant/Extremist/Terrorism." It states the reasons for blocking the site when you attempt to access it.

Edit: Wait, the homepage for that is about nihilism. This presents a dilemma: Do I not point them out because that is pretty extremist (and often militant) or what?

[nate895]

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