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                Date: 1999-03-23
                 
                 
                Filter-Idiotie: Kein Buch Mormon für Mormonen
                
                 
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      Aus dem US-Bundesstaat Utah gibt es ein vorläufiges Alltime-High  
der Zensur-Idiotie vermelden. Mittels Smartfilter wird in öffentlichen  
Bibliotheken des Mormonenstaats nicht nur der gesamte  
Shakespeare, sondern sowohl die Bibel als auch das Buch Mormon  
online blockiert. 
 
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CENSORWARE PROJECT ISSUES NEW REPORT ON  
CENSORED INTERNET ACCESS IN UTAH SCHOOLS AND  
LIBRARIES 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
 
Contact: Michael Sims daytime: 212-620-3361 evening: 718-556- 
1002 email: jellicle@inch.com 
 
 
New York, March 23, 1999 -- The Censorware Project , an  
organization which opposes the use of blocking software by public  
institutions including schools and libraries, announced today the  
release of its 61 page report, Censored Internet Access in Utah  
Public Schools and Libraries. 
 
The report analyzes approximately 53 million lines of actual use data  
obtained from the Utah Education Network under GRAMA, Utahs  
state freedom of information act.  Using a product called Smartfilter,  
UEN maintains eleven proxy servers which provide statewide  
censored internet access to all of Utahs public schools and some of  
its public libraries. 
 
Michael Sims, project manager for this report, stated that, while the  
issue of internet access in schools and libraries continues to be a  
topic of great controversy in schools and libraries, and in Congress,  
there has been a singular lack of hard data which shows how the  
internet actually is being used in public institutions.  That lack of  
data has allowed some to create or exaggerate the supposed  
problems, and it is our hope that this report, plus the underlying data  
files, will help to shed light on the truth. 
 
The data shows that less than 0.4% of all access attempts were  
banned by Smartfilter, rightfully or wrongfully.  The percentage drops  
when school is in session, increases when school is out, indicating  
that attempted accesses to sexually explicit or other inappropriate  
sites (as categorized by Smartfilter) are less likely to be made by  
students than by others. 
 
The report also demonstrates that Smartfilter, like all other  
censorware products, bans access to a great number of socially  
useful sites.  Users in Utah were banned by Smartfilter from, among  
many others, internet homes for: 
 
 The Declaration of Independence;  The United States  
Constitution;  The Bible;  The Koran;  All of Shakespeares  
plays; and  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 
 
Press release: 
http://censorware.org/press/press_03-23-99.html
                   
 
The Report: 
http://censorware.org/reports/utah/
                   
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 1999-03-23 
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