People Who Hate Guns

[mspingy]

I have a filter on my computer so that no one including myself can access porno. The other day I was online and I tried to access the Smith & Wesson site and my filter, which I bought from Bsafe, would not allow me access to this site. The reason given was that this was a hate site.

At first I thought that there must be some type of problem until I was blocked from Ruger, Springfield, Hodgton, Savage, etc, etc. They were all labeled hate sites.

I then called tech support. Tech support told me that there had been complaints from parents that they did not want their children to be able to access gun or ammunition web sites. Therefore they labeled all known gun & ammo web sites as hate sites.

I hung up the phone and began to plan my strategy.

I called tech support back. I told them that sometimes people make rash decisions just like president Bush did concerning the port issue. He reacted before he heard the majority opinion of the American people. Likewise your company has made a very rash decision before considering the majority opinion.

I very calmly told them that I am giving them 72 hour to change their policy or the following will happen:

1.) I will contact every known gun & ammo company and gun & ammo web site explaining your decision to violate our God given 2nd amendment rights. By the weeks end more than 250,000 people will be informed of your wicked decision and be advised to boycott your company and/or cancel their business agreement with your company.

2.) I will contact the NRA legal division and inform them of your violation and urge them to institute a national boycott of your company.

3.) I want you to have an upper level company manager contact me I the next 72 hours informing me of your reversal of this evil policy. If no one has contacted me within 72 hours I will assume this means that you are not going to reverse your policy and I will proceed with the 2 steps stated above.

One hour later an upper level management person called me and lied to me telling me that there was some software problem that had caused all gun & ammo sites to be listed as hate sites and that he hoped that the problem would be fixed by the end of the day.

Does this guy really believe that I am that stupid, and that his software is so intelligent to be able to find all known gun & ammo sites and label them as hate sites?

I said that is very interesting, one of your tech guys told me that this new policy change was instituted by the company in direct response to some complaints by anti-gun parents. He was silent. He said that if the problem was not cleared up in the next few hours I should give him a call back for an update on the fix.

Moral of the story:

NEVER stand by and let any group, company, legislator, or any other entity violate your GOD GIVEN constitutional rights. Too many people have died preserving these rights for us.

We must live free or die.

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Life Member NRA

[George]

The smart solution for this software supplier would be to allow users to configure their own custom "hate lists" and to not populate any of the stock lists with anything but known pornographic data. This way the weenies can add what they want to on their own and everyone else actually gets the "Porno" filter they bought, instead of a lifestyle filter they didn't ask for!

[raz-0]

Most of the filter software usually rely on multiple categories that make some sort of sense.

They usually break down into pornography, sex, violence, hate, and politics, which you can turn on and off individually. Gun stuff, in most of them get broken down between violence and politics (something like IRA-NLA web page would usually wind up under politics). Although not perfect, it's much better than the system you are describing. If they put them all under hate, something is severely wrong with how they are running their ship.

Which isn't all that unusual. Back during the 2000 election, lots of people were trying to report political campaign sites as hate related.

If mentioning the product by name is against policy, can you PM me the product name?

Edited May 10, 2006 by raz-0

[Hey QuicksDraw!]

Update please.

[blackdragon]

Yes! Update!

Those guys are Monkeys!!!!

Ivan

[mspingy]

The smart solution for this software supplier would be to allow users to configure their own custom "hate lists" and to not populate any of the stock lists with anything but known pornographic data. This way the weenies can add what they want to on their own and everyone else actually gets the "Porno" filter they bought, instead of a lifestyle filter they didn't ask for!

Company name is Bsafe.