Men's rights activists: Symantec branded us a 'hate group'

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'A men's issues website has cried foul after it was apparently classified as a "hate" site by Symantec.

Surfers visiting A Voice for Men (AVoiceForMen.com) were confronted by a message stating that it is a "known hate site" blocking from going any further by web-filtering technology in Symantec. A Voice for Men angrily denounced the move, which it ascribed to settings built into Symantec's Norton Internet Security software.

Paul Elam, publisher of A Voice for Men, fumed in an open letter to Symantec's senior management: "Your customers are given no supporting information or rationale for such a listing, and no immediate option to override the warning and proceed according to their own will; just the simple invective of being painted as a hate organisation."
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Edwards then set up Norton DNS but that did not block the site either, and said: "[L]ooks like Symantec has updated its records".

The screenshot posted by avoiceformen.com makes it clear that it was Symantec's DNS system that was labelling its site as a "hate group", rather than the Norton Internet Security product blamed by the group.

Nonetheless the confusion is understandable and what's far more difficult is to fathom why Symantec can't account for how its technology classifies a named site, despite complaints from the party concerned, combined with two days of nagging from El Reg's security desk.'