Via Boing! Boing! is the amusing tale of a library that found its own web site blocked by the very net filtering software it was using to filter out “inappropriate” sites.
The library is Piqua, Ohio’s Flesh Public Library, named for local businessman Leo Flesh who 70 years ago donated money for the library to move to its current location. But, of course, in the Internet filtering game, “flesh” and “public” appearing next to each other are enough to raise a red flag and block the site as a likely pr0n site.
So the library actually took the bizarre (IMO) step of changing their URL from www.fleshpublic.lib.oh.us to www.piqua.lib.oh.us. Surreal.
Source:
PiquaÂ’s library has to flesh out its own Web site. Kelly Isaacs Baker, Dayton Daily News, November 22, 2002.