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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 12-08-2013

Aug 12, 2013 12:00

Hamlet banned by the British Library for being too violent.
This is what web censorship does. Falsely censors things that you don't expect, while leaving access open to things you would.
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Comments 15

Messiah woodpijn August 12 2013, 11:18:14 UTC

That's stupid, and I say this as a Christian. I'd assume a baby called Messiah is named in honour of or in reference to Jesus, like one called Emmanuel (or indeed a Latin American one called Jesus).

Re: Messiah pigwotflies August 12 2013, 11:25:23 UTC

Or a Jewish boy with ambitious parents.

How does that work in the US system? Do judges have freedom to make individual judgements that don't have to conform to federal laws?

Re: Messiah abigail_n August 12 2013, 11:34:48 UTC

Messiah (or rather, Mashiach) is a common Israeli name. You'd probably be less likely to run across it in the US, though, because it's more common among Sepharadic Jews, and most US Jews are Ashkenazi.

Re: Messiah apostle_of_eris August 12 2013, 16:29:14 UTC

Constitution of the United States, Article VI: 3 "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

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cairmen August 12 2013, 12:13:47 UTC

Ouch. If the webfiltering goes ahead without addressing the IP redirect issue there, it's going to be a black-hatter's paradise.

A competent blackhat with access to the DNS records of a filtered site could easily end up running a protection racket on hundreds of UK firms.

"Nice parenting e-commerce site. Pity if it was accidentally put on the parental filters list..."

hirez August 12 2013, 12:49:19 UTC

Shakespeare declared unperson by Ficdep. Prolefeed unchanged.

bemused_leftist August 12 2013, 20:45:31 UTC

Unfortunately the later comments at that site explain the real situation. Spoilsports!

hirez August 12 2013, 21:19:57 UTC

Well, ye-es. But the set of answers that boil down to 'More'n me job's worf, innit guv? I dunno I just work 'ere' is almost worse. It's very similar to the way that DNS-based spam blocking rigs work. Technically, they're a really neat and low-effort solution. In most other respects they're a completely horrible idea run by a succession of radical-jobsworth passive aggressive bastards.

a_pawson August 12 2013, 15:22:54 UTC

He's not Messiah - he's a naughty boy!

ggreig August 12 2013, 16:42:52 UTC

This comment wins!

bemused_leftist August 12 2013, 22:09:04 UTC

So this guy Googles for "MIT Hamlet" and when he gets a garbage message he doesn't just Google for "Hamlet full text" or something, he takes his computer to the desk etc etc to the last syllable of recorded time. Imo the librarians deserve a medal for humoring the clueless.

(To check for a bug blocking the whole MIT site, he could have tried "MIT Peter Rabbit".)

From the article:
I Googled Hamlet MIT, because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put the entire works of Shakespeare up on the Internet. (It takes 70 mins to order a physical book). I clicked on the link and ( ... )