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▲{{quote|''Who censors the censors?<br />
▲''Can I do that myself?<br />
''Like anyone else.''
▲''Make up my own mind<br />
AKA "nannyware", "Internet filtering", "content-control software", and "blocking software".
The least pernicious of these of programs act as automated [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]]s, intercepting all Net traffic and dynamically "blanking out" any text they are programmed to detect as "offensive". Naturally, such filters tend to be stupidly literal and are unable to understand context. Thus they are prone to falling face-first into the [[Scunthorpe Problem]], and can end up censoring the most inoffensive webpages into incomprehensibility. And if the page so altered happens to be an input form, such as one used to create or revise wiki articles, the result can be the wholesale automated vandalization of the page's content. This is why evidence of censorware installed on
The second level of functionality found in a large number of censorware programs is active filtering and blocking of
Usually, second-stage censorware is not a problem for All The Tropes. Either we're blocked because someone connected to a filter's blacklist has decided we
{{noreallife|let's not advertise this software, okay?}}
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== Web Original ==
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160402155055/http://godblock.com/ Godblock]'' isn't exactly ''fictional'', but it ''is'' a wicked satire of and [[Take That]] at products like SurfWatch, Net Nanny, and CyberPatrol.
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