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When site filters block "marijuana".

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Image from public domain. When Internet site filters are a client's only option to use the Internet while on pretrial supervision or on probation, I ask courts for the filtering option, if my client is willing.  A recent vacation hotel brought me to the hotel's desktop computer, where I learned that its SiteCoach filtering system blocks my entire blog and some pages of my website. The automated reason given for blocking the blog is its discussion of marijuana. The reason given for blocking some of my static website's pages was marijuana for some pages, and adult entertainment for such pages as my overview page, which discusses First Amendment protection for adult entertainment.   If Internet filter software has various levels of intensity, perhaps my hotel's was set too high...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).