US Gov Filter Censors Own Embassy site in Iran

The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) lets Internet users in Iran and China bypass their governments’ blocking filters, but puts in a few of its own. By blocking all sites with a set of porn-esque words like ‘ass’, and ‘hot’, they’ve inadvertently blocked usembassy.state.gov and hotels.com. More examples are listed here in the study that points out the problem. Interestingly, they have a ‘whitelist’, a list of sites that can get through, even though they’d otherwise be blocked, which includes http://www.breast–enlargement.us/. Can’t let those poor Iranians and Chinese fail to learn the advantages of really huge breasts!

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