80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content

Global Threat or Big Brother

80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content ScanSafe’s Monthly “Global Threat Report” for March says that up to 80 percent of blogs host offensive content, ranging from “adult language” to pornographic images. The company suggests that businesses should be aggressive about preventing users from accessing some or all of this material. And of course, they’d hope that you’d use their products to do so.

ScanSafe says that it discovered the “offensive” nature of blogs by analyzing more than 7 billion web requests coming from their corporate customers. In doing so, they apparently learned that the so-called blogosphere is a lot like a George Carlin performance: diverse, sometimes entertaining, and loaded with “bad words.”But what’s really considered “offensive” content? A blog merely has to contain a single instance of profanity to be considered offensive, according to ScanSafe. “There were as many blogs with the ‘F-word’ as the word ‘China’,”

Nadir told Techworld.Blogs are a great vehicle for self-expression and the exchange of ideas,” said ScanSafe’s Dan Nadir in a statement.

It always makes me wonder and become cautious when" some entity starts to protect me from words. Words are the means that we as humans describe or comment on the World around us. Because we use words to communicate are observations and ideas there are now and always will be people who disagree to varying degrees. Now comes another "Omnipotent Nadir" ScanSafes VP of whats good for you, wants to block 80% of the information that is out there. "ScanSafe came to identify this offensive infestation by analysing "7 BILLION" request from corporate customers. Are you sure and who was doing the counting?

There are more of these types of businesses who are very good at keeping out Trojans viruses mal-ware etc, there is defiantly a need for those types of intrusive technology protections. I use ScanSafe as an example because they have gone the next inevitable step to which I am addressing. All business and private communications will be run through ScanSofts computers first, analyzed and sanitized by what ever criteria two men (founders Eldar and Roy Tuvey) decides is relevant and charge me $4 a month for each "Internet seat" in the world.

To deny or filter out 80% of data available on the web is to much power for anybody. If you are a security provider then be one, but not a censor.

When I was working in Slovakia to call some one a "Gypsy" was when the fight started or calling an Austrian a German, etc. All of those things were offensive to someone.

I guess I don't want anyone (especially named Nadir, Nader, etc, don't get me started) to censor my Internet or block what they consider offensive to be replaced by what they consider non offensive. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair (25 June, 1903 – 21 January, 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell) warned us or have we stopped listening.

Too much of life is based on electronic representations of reality.