Mattel is also firing off threats at a Wired News reporter for simply maintaining an archive of related documents.
Sites hosting the crack, hosting critical essays, or sites pointing to critical essays are being banned under every catagory CyberPatrol has, such as Violence/Profanity, Partial Nudity, Sexual Acts, Gross Depictions, Intolerance, Satanic/Cult, Drugs/Drug Culture, Militant/Extremist, Sex Education, Gambling, and Alcohol and Tobacco.
Aside: Coporate America really needs to lose the idea that a site linking to something is the same as the site actually having and distributing that something.
Mattel, makers of CyberPatrol, a censorware product, are now censoring anybody who has the cracks on their site (not much surprise), and anybody who merely points to the cracks (more surprising).
Is it any wonder that the sum total of people's resistance to the destruction of privacy and other assorted rights is a special section on Slashdot and the underfunded and virtually ignored Electronic Frontier Foundation?
Was Bill Joy's treatise shocking because the thoughts were new and original (hint: no), or was it merely that we don't expect people at his level of accomplishment to ever look around them?
I think John's right. I'm in my senior year of computer science, taking the bare minimum credits to be considered a full-time student, and I am totally swamped with work. We're horribly over-specialized; the best computer people are well-rounded, but most computer workers are too busy to look around them and see what's going on.
View from an Iowa Homestead: Computers, the Internet & the Abdication of Consciousness: 'I'm grateful for my liberal arts education, with a heavy emphasis on philosophy. Is it the case that people with strictly technical educations, say straight computer science undergrad work or engineering, cannot step back like philosophy allows one to do? I can't imagine living such a life, but perhaps people don't know what they're missing. Or don't care. Perhaps, like the retirees feeding nickels to the slot machines in Vegas, they are trying to reach the abdication of consciousness Talbott refers to.'
What happened once can happen again. Is Jupiter Communications looking to hire somebody with a sense of history? I'll be graduating soon enough...