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Books, ATF, DEA, Homework Censored by No-Cost Muni WiFi

An MIT student reports that the free wifi pilot at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, 'The Cradle of Liberty', uses phrase lists to block public access to many sites on this government-funded network. Among those blocked are Cory Doctorow's book Eastern Standard Tribe, information about lotteries (but not the Massachusetts Lottery site), criminal justice policy sites, the ATF and the DEA.

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