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Panera Censorship!

Started by dalebert, April 20, 2012, 10:24:46 PM

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dalebert

I was on the wifi at Panera in Concord, NH...



"Nudity, Pornography"

Exsqueeze me??

King Malachite

For some reason the site is blocked at my college too.
Feel the need to ask me something or just want to check out my blog?  Then click below:

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Annah

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
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Michelle G

I was getting tires at a Goodyear store today and got the same message!!

I'm like .....what??
Just a "California Girl" trying to enjoy each sunny day
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Annah

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
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Sephirah

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.
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Annah

what she said

If Susan meta tagged "transgender" it would have gone through. "Transsexual" has "sex" and that will trigger some searches.
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Jamie D

Using a proxy server might help.
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MrTesto

Write Panera HQ a letter. Often filter "customers" are able to unblock some categories or sites.
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