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08/02/2007: "Government-approved net filters block conservative news sites"

A government employee who loaded a filtering software onto his personal computer at home was surprised when NetNanny delivered the following warning about WorldNetDaily, the leading independent news site on the Internet:

"You are being blocked for viewing: www.WorldNetDaily.com/ For content of the following type(s) Hate/Violence."

The U.S. Navy had launched an investigation into the issue of blocking WND's site at WND's request after the news site got a flood of e-mails from readers who saw various messages that the site was being blocked.

It eventually was determined that an undefined "security" issue between the web-hosting location that WND uses and the Navy computer existed, and later was resolved.

[ The crowd hates many things, including realistic thought and conservatism. ]

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56961