Susan's Place Transgender Resources

Activism and Politics => Discrimination => Topic started by: dalebert on April 20, 2012, 10:24:46 PM

Title: Panera Censorship!
Post by: dalebert on April 20, 2012, 10:24:46 PM
I was on the wifi at Panera in Concord, NH...

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FGzGJh.png&hash=77c5ebf828b787b22f086dbe45c89074b1433c03)

"Nudity, Pornography"

Exsqueeze me??
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: King Malachite on April 20, 2012, 10:30:14 PM
For some reason the site is blocked at my college too.
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Annah on April 20, 2012, 10:44:42 PM
yup. I even went to a transgender friendly place that had free wifi. Susan's was blocked there too.

You need to see how Susan set up her networking tags
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Michelle G on April 20, 2012, 10:44:54 PM
I was getting tires at a Goodyear store today and got the same message!!

I'm like .....what??
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Annah on April 20, 2012, 10:46:59 PM
i'm sure it's not a discrimination issue. As I mentioned, I have been to some pretty LGBT friendly places that has Susan's blocked for pornography and nudity too. It has to do with the administration level of the website. Something in Susan's descriptions or tags are setting off "Adult site" alarms
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Sephirah on April 20, 2012, 11:43:37 PM
A lot of web filtering software employed in organisations is automated, and among other things is based on the meta tags used to describe the site to search engines.

If a site has words in the meta tags which are the same as other sites which contain inappropriate or pornographic content, such as 'sexuality', for example, then it will be blocked. Nothing to do with discrimination or censorship. After looking at the source code for the main page, there are several meta tags with the word 'sex' in them. This will likely be the reason.
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Annah on April 21, 2012, 12:59:37 AM
what she said

If Susan meta tagged "transgender" it would have gone through. "Transsexual" has "sex" and that will trigger some searches.
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: Jamie D on April 21, 2012, 03:48:52 AM
Using a proxy server might help.
Title: Re: Panera Censorship!
Post by: MrTesto on April 21, 2012, 05:16:49 PM
Write Panera HQ a letter. Often filter "customers" are able to unblock some categories or sites.