Lightspeed Content Filter, used by many schools, has now officially blocked Commons for the porn stuff.

Would anyone mind if I moved the Lightspeed block to a new thread? It would seem to me to deserve one. Keeping it in the Iran thread will make it very hard to find in the future.

That is fine. I just didn't think it deserved its own thread when I couldn't find a press release.

commons.wikimedia.org
Category: adult
Description: Adult products, services, situations and humor
Categorization Source: Manually Categorized
Modified Date/Time :4/28/2010 12:04:30 AM
Last Reviewed Date/Time: 4/28/2010 12:04:30 AM

Content Rating Details
R-Rated Content
May be suitable for high schoolers under the supervision of an adult. Includes adult material, drugs, violence, gambling, un-moderated forums, social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, blogs, and dating

http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/blog/inde...responsibility/

Angry Student says:
November 17, 2009 at 10:31 am
How can you justify blocking the Wikipedia branch of sites?
Wikipedia is in no way a forum/blog. It is a quick reference online encyclopedia, and contains valuable resources.

http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/blog/inde...ltering-policy/

Klaus says:
November 10, 2009 at 7:10 am
While I see the need to block certain websites in order to protect students and keep them from doing things they shouldn’t be while in school, I can’t help but think that Lightspeed sometimes blocks sites unnecessarily.

Now, while I’m certainly not against limiting what students have access to, I am wholeheartedly opposed to blocking sites like Wikipedia.org.

But the way, I don’t see where you get off classifying Wikipedia as a forum. It is an informational site dedicated to knowledge and therefore valuable tool for students.

Lightspeed Content Filter, used by many schools, has now officially blocked Commons for the porn stuff.

Wikipedia is in no way a forum/blog. It is a quick reference online encyclopedia, and contains valuable resources.

http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/Archive/W....wikimedia.org#


Enwiki is also rated R, but it's labeled as a blog.

Good stuff. But does that mean that if a Commons photo is used on another site such as Wikinews or the Spanish WP it will be visible?



Someone needs educating. Why on earth can't a site be both, as of course WP is?

Interesting. Citizendium which claims to be family friendly and has no known pr0n pics I'm aware of has been given the same rating as the Commons, R:

http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/Archive/W...citizendium.org

Very likely, their rating system is being manipulated by unscrupulous individuals who are "modding down" the ratings of their rivals. I first ran into that practice on Slashdot, when that site's own peculiar clone of FeloniousMonk similarly manipulated the system to mod down editors who were challenging him on his misconceptions.