LexBlog’s been banned

Ken Chen, CEO of OneCle says it’s arbitrary and capricious, the banning of this blog, that is, by SmartFilter, content censorship software used by corporations.

Apparently the filters ban certain dating and social networking sites while allowing others to fly through. But with legal sites, Ken says things really get nuts.

Here’s where the stupidity of the SmartFilter technology really shines through. They’ve banned Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs as a personal page, but, Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog is o.k. Doctor Kevin = Good. Lawyer Kevin = Bad. However, they aren’t giving all doctor blogs a free pass. Family Medicine Notes is a banned personal page.

Kevin (the lawyer) can take some consolation since he is among distinguished company. The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, Akin Gump’s SCOTUS blog, the Becker-Posner Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy and Professor Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog are all banned. However, they haven’t touched the Lessig Blog or the Law Professor Blogs.

Though Ken found such filtering software in place in a hospital, it doesn’t look like Chinese censorship is preventing access to a lot of folks who seem to be following what I do and say lately. Good morning guys.