Does SonicWALL actually look at the blogs they blacklist? (Updated)

Breaking: CzechRebel reports that earlier today the 1389Blog was censored by SonicWall as violence/hate/racism. A complaint was filed, and the site has now been re-classified properly. Read more here.

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Here’s some email I got from cfssupport@sonicwall.com:

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support: Rate exposingsutter.blogspot.com as “33.News and Media” at 2007-09-07 06:25:04.467

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
“1.Violence/Hate/Racism” at 2007-09-10 00:28:09.907

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

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support

But wait, there’s more:

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support: Rate ladypredator.com as “33.News and Media” at 2007-09-06 07:25:00.577

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
“1.Violence/Hate/Racism” at 2007-09-09 09:28:01.530

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

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support

In fact, the entire domain, www.ladypredator.com is under the same classification.

Why were these sites blacklisted in the first place?

“Reverend” Jim Sutter’s personal vendetta

If you can access Exposing ‘Rev.’ Sutter on your computer, go and take a look at it! “Reverend” Jim Sutter is a self-ordained minister who has declared a one-man jihad against every source of antijihadist news and commentary that he can find, including Christian talk radio.

Among other things, Exposing ‘Rev.’ Sutter charges Sutter with using false complaints to censorware providers as a means of shutting down antijihadist blogs.

As we explained earlier, Sutter is doing the very same thing in an attempt to shut down every blogger who dares to reveal Sutter’s blog censorship activities!

Why are the other two sites blacklisted also?

Lady Predator is an antijihadist news blog, and www.ladypredator.com is a mirror site and message board. Given the blog owner’s association with Exposing ‘Rev.’ Sutter, it didn’t take long for Sutter’s cyberstalkers to find them too.

SonicWALL: Helping the enemies of America and the free world

Up to now, SonicWALL and other censorware vendors have been free to impose de facto worldwide censorship on the Internet, with scarcely anyone realizing what’s going on.

Many of these censorware vendors are large, multinational firms. They do business with the US government, with state and local governments, and with foreign governments and organizations around the world. Some, like SonicWALL, are headquartered in the US; others are not.

Either way, their loyalties are up for the highest bidder.

By allowing political speech to be blacklisted by malicious individuals and groups all over the world, these censorware vendors are providing a “back door” that allows our enemies to game the system in order to keep everyone in the dark about jihadist activities.

Up to now, SonicWALL and other censorware vendors have been accountable to nobody.

We’re about to change that.

How?

Just for starters, use this form to contact SonicWALL and tell them to reclassify these sites as “news and media” or as “political advocacy.”:

• http://exposingsutter.blogspot.com/
• http://ladypredator.com
• http://www.ladypredator.com

The next step is to contact SonicWALL directly!

Contact SonicWALL, Inc. at:

Matt Medeiros, President and CEO
SonicWALL, Inc.
1143 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1306
USA

P +1 888.557.6642
P +1 408.745.9600
F +1 408.745.9300

Email contact form

While you’re at it, tell Panera Bread to STOP using SonicWALL censorware on their WiFi!

Contact Panera Bread at:

Ronald M. Shaich, Chairman and CEO
Panera Bread
6710 Clayton Road
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
Tel: (314) 633-7100
Fax: (314) 633-7200

Email contact form

Investor Relations:
800-301-5566, ext. 6500
investor@panerabread.com

Then what?

Follow the money, of course!

It’s time to look at who owns these companies, who else they do business with, where they got their venture capital, the political involvements of their board members, and so forth.

If you have any information of that nature, or if you want to help, please contact us.

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