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[VANITY] (From Microsoft) Helping kids deal with hateful content on the Internet
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Posted on 10/11/2005 8:33:10 PM PDT by goonie4life9

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(This article was published in 2004, but was linked in the Microsoft Security Newsletter I received today.)I think it is interesting that Microsoft is now in the business of deciding what is and is not hate. Specifically, Microsoft makes a huge stretch in trying to link visiting uglypeople.com to then visiting racist or anti-gay sites. Further, from my casual perusal of www. martinlutherking.org, I found no hateful content, just merely an alternative account of MLK's life. But I guess if you question certain people's legacy, you are a racist.
1 posted on 10/11/2005 8:33:13 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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FR didn't make the list????


2 posted on 10/11/2005 8:35:51 PM PDT by null and void (Bringing Faith to the Doubtful, and Doubt to the Faithful)
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No, but I'm sure if they were pressed, they would name FR.


3 posted on 10/11/2005 8:38:16 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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Well, here we go again with this "Corporate Social Responsibility" crap. Can't they stick to writing and distributing software?


4 posted on 10/11/2005 8:38:40 PM PDT by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: null and void

I played around with Internet Nanny (or some such similar name) in the early days, to keep my kids away from pornography sites. I dropped it because it slowed things down like molasses. It was painful to load a page.

As I recall, FreeRepublic, or it might have been Whitewater in those days, was on the list of forbidden sites in some of these programs.


5 posted on 10/11/2005 8:38:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: null and void

Maybe this'll do it!

6 posted on 10/11/2005 8:39:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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It's lovely, is it not. All these libs wail about tolerence and diversity. But of course only they, the enlightened ones, can judge what is truly tolerant and diverse and what is hate.


7 posted on 10/11/2005 8:42:49 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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To: goonie4life9

martinlutherking.org is hosted by "stormfront" which definitely has a vicious racist agenda. NOT a reliable source, in my opinion.


8 posted on 10/11/2005 8:44:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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Poltical correctness == The Liberal Agenda == Despotism

There is no dissent. The damned intellectuals have already decided on the issues. What are you still debating for?

Your media will be blacklisted, you will be determined unfit for the courts, and your politics have "no place" in the classroom. Hate speech is prohibited (and defined by the left).

But there is a way to save your kids from this future. Abortion is a birthright in America.


9 posted on 10/11/2005 8:53:32 PM PDT by weegee (The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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My point was that the site presented no material that was hateful. I was attempting to point out that Microsoft was not really trying to stop the spread of hatred, but was rather trying to tell parents to be sure their children only read lib approved material. To normal, rational people, a fact is a fact, but to libs, a fact is only a fact if it does not hurt anyone's feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.


10 posted on 10/11/2005 8:53:44 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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"It's lovely, is it not. All these libs wail about tolerence and diversity. But of course only they, the enlightened ones, can judge what is truly tolerant and diverse and what is hate. "

I agree


11 posted on 10/11/2005 8:59:56 PM PDT by seastay
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To: goonie4life9

I have not been to that website or investigated those who put it together.

Martin Luther King Jr. did good things but towards the end of his life his message was getting co-opted into a discussion of class discrimination (socialist theory).


12 posted on 10/11/2005 9:00:22 PM PDT by weegee (The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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Speaking of "no place" in the classroom, I have this professor who routinely likes to answer my objections with, "yeah, it really all does depend on your worldview," and then change the subject. We couldn't have any facts getting in the way of political ideology and indoctrination, now could we (which is why, imo, people are being driven away from psychology and psychologists- too many let their politics blind them, and scientific inquiry into human behavior has been replaced with politically correct studies: feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel good studies, blame-the-white-man studies, normalize deviant behavior studies, etc.).


13 posted on 10/11/2005 9:01:54 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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Hate promoters look for vulnerable youth who can be brought into their community through private chat rooms and e-mail, far away from the public eye.

Sounds like the journey of the American Taliban from white (pretending online to be black) hip hop fan into rabid Islamonazi taking up arms for "the cause" overseas.

Are Islamist sites (including Ask The Imam) on Microsquish's list?

14 posted on 10/11/2005 9:03:37 PM PDT by weegee (The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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Reminds me of an old Ayn Rand novel, "We The Living" (I think) where everyone was "Equal" and no one was allowed to win (Or lose for that matter). Obviously, feelings were equalized as well to the point that there were none.
15 posted on 10/11/2005 9:04:51 PM PDT by drt1
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I highly doubt it. See, we have to be kind to them. We need to understand their culture. Besides, they are only angry because of our Western Imperialism (pay no attention to the conquering of Northern Africa and Spain, etc., by Muslim armies).


16 posted on 10/11/2005 9:07:02 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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To: weegee

I highly doubt it. See, we have to be kind to them. We need to understand their culture. Besides, they are only angry because of our Western Imperialism (pay no attention to the conquering of Northern Africa and Spain, etc., by Muslim armies).


17 posted on 10/11/2005 9:07:22 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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The ultimate hate site for Microsoft to filter:


18 posted on 10/11/2005 9:09:08 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe next time.)
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Can't they stick to writing and distributing software?

Maybe they are trying to find something they can be good at?

19 posted on 10/11/2005 9:11:17 PM PDT by null and void (Bringing Faith to the Doubtful, and Doubt to the Faithful)
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To: BenLurkin

Who are those blue guys in turbans?


20 posted on 10/11/2005 9:12:08 PM PDT by null and void (Bringing Faith to the Doubtful, and Doubt to the Faithful)
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