While browsing a discussion on Ship of Fools about ridiculous disclaimers, I found a link to this article about how Americans are getting annoyed at the increasingly international flavour of the Internet. Here’s an extract:
Sensing a market opportunity, Net Nanny, makers of Net Nanny filtering software, announced this week it will introduce NetNarrow, an English-only product that automatically filters out content that appears to be international. Specifically, the software looks for world datelines and keywords indicative of irrelevant foreign stories, including “Shiite,” “post-Apartheid,” and “Bob Geldof.”