Previously, following my complaints, Glenn Sacks of Fathers and Families had his site unblocked, similalrly the other unblocked site also pertained to fathers' issues. O2 appeared to be standing by their hate smears, indicating as such on Twitter just yesterday and have not mentioned any more sites being unblocked. In reality, my testing shows a number of additional father related sites have been unblocked and are no longer suffering this vile defamation. These include:
This now leaves father-related sites as quite a small minority on the "hate" list, and suggests that Symantec and O2 are slowly coming round to the idea of equality for fathers being a legitimate issue. Of course it goes without saying that they are still firmly against any other men's issues being addressed such as rape, abuse, false imprisonment and domestic violence. The only other possible scenario is that they just have absolutely no idea what they're doing.
In total O2 and Symantec have now reclassified eight sites since I started this exercise, others include the following:
http://www.gabnet.com/lit/demoh10.htm
http://www.barnoz.wordpress.com
http://www.rulymob.com
http://www.womenagainstvawa.org (wasn't actually smeared as hate, but wrongly censored due to being given a "pornography" classification)
I've no idea if Symantec and O2 have apologised to the owners of those sites, though given that they haven't even publicised the unblocking, I doubt there has been any communication never mind a much needed apology. Perhaps site owners can confirm this? Anyway, just another 80 to go….
by John Kimble

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