<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font>Snip</font></p></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>James Tyre: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">
<font><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:'Courier New';font-size:11pt"> How any of the blacklisted sites could be found to be terrorist sites is incomprehensible. This was never supposed to be a pretty standard filter.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">Incidentally, the filter is the handiwork of Blue Coat, which did such a marvelous job of promoting free expression on the Internet in Syria, among other places, see, e.g., <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges-syrian-government-use-its-products" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges-syrian-government-use-its-products</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></font></p></div></blockquote><div>What is also worrying is that here you have both US and Syria using the same contractor, in this case Blue Coat to or "filter" to block access. </div>
<div><br></div><div>We are seeing the trends in both developed democracies and countries where democracy is still a challenge that freedom of expression.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div class="h5"><div><div><div><div><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Today I was visiting the USPTO, for a high level meeting on global negotiations on intellectual property and access to medicine.</span><font color="#ffff00"> </font>The meeting was held in the Stockholm Room, on the 2nd floor of the USPTO library, at the main USPTO building at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. The USPTO also uses these meeting rooms for its Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA). The USPTO offers free Wifi for the visitors. But when I tried to login to <a href="http://keionline.org" title="http://keionline.org" target="_blank" style="color:black">http://keionline.org</a>, I received this message:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Access Denied (content_filter_denied) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Y<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">our request was denied because this URL contains content that is categorized as: "Political/Activist Groups" which is blocked by USPTO policy. If you believe the categorization is inaccurate, please contact the USPTO Service Desk and request a manual review of the URL.</span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For assistance, contact USPTO OCIO IT Service Desk. (io-proxy4)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div></blockquote><p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We checked and found that the USPTO blocks access to a number of groups that have followed SOPA and the TPP intellectual property negotiations, particularly those critical of the USPTO positions on intellectual property issues. Among the NGOs that were blocked were <a href="http://aclu.org" target="_blank">aclu.org</a>, <a href="http://cdt.org" target="_blank">cdt.org</a>, <a href="http://citizen.org" target="_blank">citizen.org</a>, <a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a>, <a href="http://healthgap.org" target="_blank">healthgap.org</a>, <a href="http://keionline.org" target="_blank">keionline.org</a> and <a href="http://publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org</a>. Among the sites NOT BLOCKED were the industry lobby groups BSA, MPPA, RIIA, and PhRMA. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The USPTO also selectively blocks certain blogs and new sites, including, for example, dailykos.coms, <a href="http://firedoglake.com" target="_blank">firedoglake.com</a>, <a href="http://redstate.org" target="_blank">redstate.org</a>, <a href="http://rushlimbaugh.com" target="_blank">rushlimbaugh.com</a> and <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com" target="_blank">talkingpointsmemo.com</a>., <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here are examples of what the USPTO blocks, and does not block. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr>
<td width="100" style="width:75.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blocked NGOs</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
</td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://aclu.org" target="_blank">aclu.org</a><br><a href="http://cdt.org" target="_blank">cdt.org</a><br>
<a href="http://citizen.org" target="_blank">citizen.org</a><br><a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a><br><a href="http://healthgap.org" target="_blank">healthgap.org</a><br><a href="http://keionline.org" target="_blank">keionline.org</a><br>
<a href="http://publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NGOs that are NOT blocked</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
</td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://bsa.org" target="_blank">bsa.org</a><br><a href="http://creativecommons.org" target="_blank">creativecommons.org</a><br>
<a href="http://iipa.com" target="_blank">iipa.com</a><br><a href="http://iipi.org" target="_blank">iipi.org</a><br><a href="http://ipi.org" target="_blank">ipi.org</a><br><a href="http://mpaa.org" target="_blank">mpaa.org</a><br>
PhRMA.org<br><a href="http://pubpat.org" target="_blank">pubpat.org</a><br>RIIA.Org<br><a href="http://stockholm-network.org" target="_blank">stockholm-network.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blocked Blogs and news outlets</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p></td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">dailykos.coms<br><a href="http://firedoglake.com" target="_blank">firedoglake.com</a><br><a href="http://redstate.org" target="_blank">redstate.org</a><br>
<a href="http://rushlimbaugh.com" target="_blank">rushlimbaugh.com</a><br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com" target="_blank">talkingpointsmemo.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blogs and new outlets that are NOT blocked </span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p></td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://71patent.blogspot.com" target="_blank">71patent.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://aljazeera.com" target="_blank">aljazeera.com</a><br>
<a href="http://boingboing.net" target="_blank">boingboing.net</a><br><a href="http://dailycaller.com" target="_blank">dailycaller.com</a><br><a href="http://democracynow.org" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br><a href="http://drudgereport.com" target="_blank">drudgereport.com</a><br>
<a href="http://groklaw.net" target="_blank">groklaw.net</a><br><a href="http://huffingtonpost.com" target="_blank">huffingtonpost.com</a><br><a href="http://ip-watch.org" target="_blank">ip-watch.org</a><br><a href="http://itcblog.com" target="_blank">itcblog.com</a><br>
<a href="http://lessig.org" target="_blank">lessig.org</a><br><a href="http://michaelgeist.ca" target="_blank">michaelgeist.ca</a><br><a href="http://nationalreview.com" target="_blank">nationalreview.com</a><br><a href="http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com" target="_blank">spicyipindia.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a href="http://techdirt.com" target="_blank">techdirt.com</a><br><a href="http://washingtonmonthly.com" target="_blank">washingtonmonthly.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><ul type="disc">
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Submitted by Anonymous dude or dudess on 19. September 2012 - 12:02. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div><div>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">'Ex-Patent Examiner here. If this was anything other than a contractor foul-up, I'll eat my hat. There were a dozen instances where I'd need to call the help desk to access a website that would enable me to do my job.' If true, this means no one at USPTO tried to access those sites and asked for the filter to be removed since it was implemented.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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