BoingBoing reader Kurt von Finck says,
Read with a mixture of dismay and pleasure today's BB article regarding blocking by SmartFilter. Dismay that a product with "Smart" in its moniker is so stupid, and pleasure that you've decided to stand up to it. Let me suggest an additional strategy.
What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users? What happens when SmartFilter blocks so much content that the web is crippled for its users?
So, I have created the attached button (standard 120×90 size) that BB readers can put on their sites. It features the pubic region of Michelangelo's David sculpture, uses fairly neutral colors, and is taken from public domain stock photography. I release this work into the public domain, relinquish any claims over its use, and encourage BB readers to put it on their sites.
Maybe if enough of us do so, SmartFilter will just collapse under the weight of its own odious censoring.
Previously:
* BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere. Our response to net-censors: Get bent!
* Iran, Tunisia also use SmartFilter (which blocks BoingBoing as "nudity")
Reader comment: Kathryn says,
Along with the statue David, people could add the statue "Spirit of Justice," famous for Ashcroft's velvet draping: Link. Another famous topless babe is in Eugene Delacroix' Liberty painting: Link.
