Symantec, O2 still censoring/defaming MHRA sites

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-05-10 01:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'In case you weren’t aware, Symantec and UK telecoms company O2 are currently still blocking men’s human rights sites and labelling them as “hate sites”. Previous reports of the cessation of such disgraceful behaviour were based on an erroneous article at The Register and the truth of the matter is that at no time were any of the sites in question unblocked.

It’s not just A Voice for Men that is smeared in this way by these companies, even completely uncontroversial resources have been defamed too. Symantec believes that the equal Justice Foundation’s dvmen.org site to be hateful, yet all they do is help male victims of domestic abuse. Sites wanting separated dads to have a relationship with their kids are also classed in this ridiculous way, and if you’re dedicated to nothing more than drawing attention to the plight of male victims of rape and sexual abuse then even that’s “hate” too.

Longevity is no barrier to Symantec denying your site traffic, with The National Coalition for Men subject to the hate smear. Nationality nor language offer much protection either, with UK, Canadian, Irish, Swiss, Portuguese, German sites suffering this most terrible mis-categorisation. In total I’ve discovered over 80 men’s human rights sites which are being defamed and censored, this constitutes a substantial portion of our movement.'

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One way to get a blocked site's content is to Google the site and get cached pages. For example, blocked or not, if you want to see pages that may not be available anymore, type the name of the site into the Google search box (example: mensactivism.org) and click "Search". Note the word "Cached" next to the link under the primary link. Click it and you'll see the cached pages for the site. Only, the URL will look like this:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:lnceW0faM40J:http://news.mensactivism.org/%2BMensactivism.org&gbv=2&ct=clnk

Unless the content blocker also selectively blocks the Google web cache content, you should be able to see it. But some do. Don't know if Symantec/O2 does or not since obviously, I'm not blocked by them. :)

Another way to foil content blockers is a lot less convenient but you can do this. Create a list using Google Groups and if just one member isn't blocked, he/she can save the page content and send it off in emails to the group. For a site like MANN, this'd be a pain if you also wanted to include post comments or embedded URLs. But for other blocked sites, it may work.

But while all manner of entities continue to try to block all manner of Internet content, it's hard to stop ppl who really want to see the sites they want to see. Just ask the Chinese gov't. Despite their best efforts, somehow the Chinese ppl still manage to see all sorts of sites their gov't deems "unpatriotic". Can't manage a windstorm, can you?

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-05-10 01:42