Blocklist update due to New Zealand incident

[ibpalle]

Smoothwall has published an out-of-bounds blocklist today to all customers at 09:30 (UTC) which will include some additional search terms relating to the incidents that have unfolded in New Zealand overnight.

 

These additional search terms will not prevent users from searching for information about the incident but will categorise searches for video footage as violence.

 

We've been made aware that the attacker(s) live streamed the shootings, and we've already found a number of sites hosting this content which have now been categorised appropriately. We do not usually release out-of-bounds blocklist updates but given the nature of the incident, and the graphical contents of the video footage we've decided that it is necessary on this occasion.

[SchoolsBroadband]

We too have done the same with our filtering solution