Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Myself to Death: Censorship Update

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Censorship Update

This is an experimental post. In my previous post, I wrote about Net Nanny, in its zeal to prevent me from stumbling into Internet porn, preventing me from visiting Slate, what I'd thought up to now was a perfectly respectable news and commentary site. But the word porn itself was censored in that post, replaced with four pound signs. I don't generally write about porn, so I never had the opportunity to see if Blogger would censor it, but I suspect this is my hotel's Net Nanny at work rather than Blogger. I'm not in the hotel's system at the moment--I'm visiting a friend of my brother--so we'll see whether we get the word porn or ####. If this post is littered with pound signs, I guess you already know. I'll be at the hotel later tonight using their wireless rather than their desktops, so I may give it another try. I assume Net Nanny has to be installed on the hard drive to censor what you can see, but one way or another, I'll find out.

UPDATE: Nope, no pound signs this time out. I went back in and took them out of the previous post, too.

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