When N2H2 Mistakenly Calls Your Website 'Porn'? 64
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Cliff
from the mistaken-identity dept.
from the mistaken-identity dept.
Scott Auge asks: "Should one be able to sue a filtering company for libel? After seeing an article top) about filtering software for sites, I decided to take a look at how mine is listed. Upon punching my site in at this N2H2 form, I see it listed as pornography. One look at my site, and you will know it is far from pornography. doesn't seem quite right to me. Opinions?"
Virtual hosted? (Score:4, Insightful)
So, if IP address s.y.z.a serves both your site and www.pervertsinculverts.com, then you will be besmirched by them, since you share the same server.
It sucks, but then, all content filtering like this sucks.
to porn or not to porn... (Score:4, Insightful)
...or rather, how do they do the rating anyway?
Just for the thrill, I ran one of my own websites* thru the system, and this is what I got:
The Site: won-tolla.future.easyspace.com is categorized by N2H2 as: Web Page Hosting/Free Pages
The site you submitted resides on a Web page hosting server that provides Web page hosting for their users such as homepages that share a common domain. These sites include those provided by ISPs, University/education servers, free Web page hosts, etc. Although many of these Web page providers post rules and regulations for content, they do not always adequately monitor this content. Users often abuse Web page services by posting offensive content under multiple pseudonyms.
Now, this site contains stuff that can be labeled, among other things, pornographic. It also contains a lot of other stuff, but thats beside my point right now.
My point is; they seem to rate domains on what you're most likely to find there - not the induvidual sites.
*)The same that is showing up there, just under my nick.
Re:Use the Review Site button (Score:1, Insightful)
However the BSA or RIAA do it would be good enough if it were my site.