{"id":185,"date":"2004-05-03T18:53:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T22:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2004-05-03T18:53:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T22:53:32","slug":"us-gov-filter-censors-own-embassy-site-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/03\/us-gov-filter-censors-own-embassy-site-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Gov Filter Censors Own Embassy site in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) lets Internet users in Iran and China bypass their governments&#8217; blocking filters, but puts in a few of its own. By blocking all sites with a set of porn-esque words like &#8216;ass&#8217;, and &#8216;hot&#8217;, they&#8217;ve inadvertently blocked usembassy.state.gov and hotels.com. More examples are listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opennetinitiative.net\/advisories\/001\/\">here<\/a> in the study that points out the problem.  Interestingly, they have a &#8216;whitelist&#8217;, a list of sites that can get through, even though they&#8217;d otherwise be blocked, which includes http:\/\/www.breast&#8211;enlargement.us\/. Can&#8217;t let those poor Iranians and Chinese fail to learn the advantages of really huge breasts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) lets Internet users in Iran and China bypass their governments&#8217; blocking filters, but puts in a few of its own. By blocking all sites with a set of porn-esque words like &#8216;ass&#8217;, and &#8216;hot&#8217;, they&#8217;ve inadvertently blocked usembassy.state.gov and hotels.com. More examples are listed here in the study that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}