RE: Blocked Weblog

This is scary. My site, www.legaline.com, is in there under the category
"electronic commerce." But all I sell is legal services.

-- Bob Ambrogi
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Robert J. Ambrogi, Esq.
Rockport, MA
Web: www.legaline.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James S. Tyre [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NetLawyers] Blocked Weblog
> 
> 
> 
> See below.  Many businesses uses censorware for a variety of 
> purposes, 
> supposedly to improve worker productivity, avoid bringing 
> inappropriate 
> material into the workplace, etc.  The problem is that 
> censorware is not in 
> the least fine-grained, and if the employer is using 
> censorware that has 
> you in a broad category, you've been bit.  Here, you're in Secure 
> Computing's free pages category.  You and billions of others.
> 
> And yes, some censorware products do specifically block blogs.
> 
> http://database.n2h2.com/cgi-perl/catrpt.pl
> URL Checker
> 
> Thank you for your submission. Below please find a listing of 
> the category 
> (ies) in which your submitted URL appears. For a detailed 
> description of 
> each category, visit our filtering categories section.
> 
> The Site: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/
> is categorized by N2H2 as:
> Web Page Hosting/Free Pages
> 
> The site you submitted resides on a Web page hosting server 
> that provides 
> Web page hosting for their users such as homepages that share 
> a common 
> domain. These sites include those provided by ISPs, 
> University/education 
> servers, free Web page hosts, etc. Although many of these Web page 
> providers post rules and regulations for content, they do not always 
> adequately monitor this content. Users often abuse Web page 
> services by 
> posting offensive content under multiple pseudonyms.
> 
> Because this category contains hundreds of millions of pages, 
> it is not 
> practical to assign more granular categorization to individual pages. 
> However, any page can be added to your local block and allow 
> list, enabling 
> access to specific content even if the category has been 
> selected to be 
> blocked. Local block or allow lists are maintained at the 
> discretion of 
> your local network administration. You can reach your network 
> administration by contacting those that provide our filtering 
> for you, 
> whether that be your school, Internet Service Provider, or 
> place of employment.
> 
> 
> At 08:27 PM 4/11/2005 -0400, Stuart Levine wrote:
> 
> >I understand the general position of brokerage houses with 
> respect to 
> >communications emanating from the firm.  However, weblogs, 
> for the most 
> >part, represent communications to the firm.  Thus, there 
> should be no 
> >basis for limiting access.
> >
> >On 11 Apr 2005 at 16:35, Greg Broiles wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Apr 11, 2005 2:41 PM, Stuart Levine <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Some of you may find my weblog posting here: > >
> > > http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/04/writers-block.html > > 
> or here: > 
> > > > http://snipurl.com/dyaw > > to be of interest.  It deals with a 
> > > discovery that I made last Friday, > namely that access 
> to my weblog 
> > > was blocked via a stock > brokerage internet connection.
> > >
> > > I tried to respond via your weblog, but got an error when 
> I tried to 
> > > post.
> > >
> > > The gist of my comment was that this isn't too surprising to me, 
> > > given the regulatory environment within which brokers 
> operate. SEC 
> > > and broker/dealer regulation are not my field, but it's my 
> > > impression that there are rules (created by either SEC or NASD or 
> > > both) that require brokers to retain copies of *every* written 
> > > communication between brokers and [potential] customers, 
> as well as 
> > > baroque rules regarding the content of the 
> communications. In that 
> > > light, claming down on blogs doesn't strike me as out of 
> character.
> > >
> > > See, for example, 
> <http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_youve_mail/>
> > > (circa 2000) discussing whether or not it's a good idea 
> for brokers 
> > > to be allowed to use E-mail, and discussing that a 
> regulatory ruling 
> > > allowing same was only 2 years old at that time.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Greg Broiles, JD, EA
> > > [email protected] (Lists only. Not for confidential 
> > > communications.) Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles San Jose, CA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal
> > > applications:
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> >********************************************
> >Stuart Levine
> >Fisher & Winner, LLP
> >315 North Charles Street
> >Baltimore, Maryland 21201
> >Telephone:             410.385.2000
> >Telecopier:              443.927.7075
> >Cellphone:               410.802.5817
> >Weblog:  http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com
> >[email protected]
> >*********************************************
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> James S. Tyre                               mailto:[email protected]
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> 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512               Culver City, CA 90230-4969
> Co-founder, The Censorware Project             http://censorware.net
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