Do you live in a country with mandatory internet censorship?

[vidcc]

I meant the google filter.

Child pornography and the like obviously gets filtered out from most countries.

However I was for the most part refering to what google's national pages could be filtering, and what might be the difference between google's national pages in western countries.

I take it google doesn't operate in China?

Ah well my answer stands...google filter gives the individual a choice. It operates on the world web and i believe it filters out adult content, not political

[ahctlucabbuS]

A search for 'sex' produced some of the following hits:

sexpistols

sex and the city

sex addicts anonymous

The official Alien Sex Fiend website

sex laws

And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible

As you can see, not at all exciting

[vidcc]

try going into the google preferences and change the filter level..... i do appreciate you will only be doing this for "ahem"....."research"

[ahctlucabbuS]

Yes, like the above

[Ariel_001]

ok...

http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/ in Saudi Arabia, (I know people there)

http://img38.exs.cx/img38/7955/bliocked.jpp

I guess he can't see the movie there also..

Damn it, Not imageshack too...

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/8357/imageshack1.jpg

[BawA]

site with porn contents r blocked here via proxy but with diffrent proxy we can browse them.

[Afronaut]

Ah well my answer stands...google filter gives the individual a choice. It operates on the world web and i believe it filters out adult content, not political

Check this out:

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is blocking access to the Web site Google News, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, and accused the U.S.-based company of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site. The Paris-based group said the government had been blocking Google's English-language Web site (www.news.google.com) for about 10 days, after the company launched a Chinese-language version that removed politically sensitive reports.

Attempts by Reuters to access the site in China on Tuesday resulted in a search freeze.

"China is censoring Google News to force Internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

"By agreeing to launch a news service that excludes publications disliked by the government, Google has let itself be used by Beijing," it said.

Google News launched it its Chinese version in September and agreed not to list certain news on the site, Reporters Without Borders said.

The practice is also common to popular Chinese Web portals, including Sina.com, Sohu.com and NetEase.com, which patrol their sites to delete politically sensitive comments.

China's Internet market is expected to grow to 111 million subscribers by year-end and is considered a medium for free expression, but the government has in past jailed people for Web postings.

It has also created a special cyber police force to monitor sites, servers and registrars.

From here:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6951891

Edit:

Found another link too:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11968

[Afronaut]

Another interesting post in Slashdot,

Some guy posted the robot.txtfile of whitehouse.

That file is made for Spiders that index the Website for future searches.
They will be ignored.

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/iraq
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/iraq
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/iraq
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
Disallow: /911/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/text
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/text
Disallow: /911/progress/iraq

(...snip, it had too many entrys, close to 80k words in this post...)

And the post in Slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/01...tid=217&tid=17

This post particular:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...7&cid=10960600

I find this interesting to read. Imn ot sure what to make of it tho,
I know the robot-txt is used for perfectly good reasons also,
Like, the Temp files,news that are not finished to publish or somesuch.

But it could be used to cencor stuff, technically speaking.
Or, why make "the news" about something you would need to block anyways? Thats just Silly.

[Voetsek]

Not yet

[Formula1]

I live in the USA, so i don't think so