Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students
Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students: nk497 writes "British ISPs have been told by the government to offer their customers parental control systems to block content like gambling sites and pornography, but the McAfee system used by BT and Sky leaves the tough censoring decisions to a small group of barely-trained students. While much of the categorization work is done using an automated system, decisions on whether porn is 'hardcore' or merely 'erotica,' or whether a page contains hate speech, is left to a team of five to ten people with a day of training — and the job is apparently popular with students. McAfee doesn't publish the list of sites it hands to ISPs to block, making it difficult to see if your own site has been misclassified."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment