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Microsoft filter blocks Free Software Foundation donation site

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The Free Software Foundation's executive director John Sullivan has publicly complained that Microsoft's reputation database is listing the Foundation's donate.fsf.org as a gambling site. The Foundation was alerted by a Reddit posting where a user was unable to access the site from his place of work.

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BernardSwiss ·
Quoting:

2012-06-25 Update:

The gambling category has been removed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a correction on our behalf. They still haven't added us to the "Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO" category, and they have us inaccurately labeled as "Shareware/Freeware," but this is progress. Our story remains as a cautionary tale against using Microsoft's proprietary software—we are fortunate enough to have a community of supporters to speak up for us, but how many other sites remain unfairly and wrongly labeled?
gus3 ·
Where do you want to go today?™

I want to read articles from the Free Software Foundation.

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
montezuma ·
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"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."

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