Foehammer’s Anvil

The First Amendment. It guarantees my Right to Free Speech. Yet, here we are 6 months later, after I originally brought up the issue of Foehammer.com (sister domain to Foehammer.net) being listed as a ‘hate site’, and it is still unchanged from or has reverted back to “1.Violence/Hate/Racism” categorization by SonicWall, one or the other.

I cannot abide censorship and so I am once again asking that you take a minute and follow the instructions originally listed in the an article here mid-way through 2007:

Please help me out again by sending in a new ratings request for Foehammer.COM to SonicWALL. I suggest 31 - Web Communications.

To check a URL rating at SonicWALL, click here.

To request a new URL rating at SonicWALL, click here.

There is no longer any doubt in my mind that my traffic will remain under assault from various enemies on the WWW as long as the Anvil exists.

It is interesting to note that the Trinity United Church of Christ website is not listed as a ‘hate site’ (it is listed as Category 37: Religion), so why the Anvil? Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. certainly doesn’t hold back on his Free Speech rights, and I certainly have never ranted like the pastor. Just sayin’.

I have not gotten around to checking other ‘web filtering services’, but I will do follow-ups soon and see how the Anvil is being listed with all that I am aware of.

UPDATE 3/25/08: Another small victory.

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support:
Rate foehammer.com as “31.Web Communications” at 2008-03-22 11:25:00.270

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
“31.Web Communications” at 2008-03-25 11:28:00.850

You should see this rating change reflected within 1 to 3 business days.

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support

Big thanks to all that submitted a ratings change! Hopefully this will stick for a few months.

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