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Bennett Haselton (born November 20, 1978) is the founder of Circumventor.com and Peacefire.org, two US-based websites dedicated to combating Internet censorship. Peacefire.org is focused on documenting flaws in commercial Internet blocking programs. Circumventor.com is dedicated to distributing anti-censorship tools to users in countries such as China and Iran, and as of 2011 has over 3 million subscribers through distribution channels including email and Facebook pages. At 21, Haselton testified before the US Child Online Protection Commission (COPA Commission), a congressionally appointed panel mandated by the Child Online Protection Act, where he presented evidence that the error rate in most commercial blocking programs was much higher than commonly believed.〔 〕 In 2007, he testified as an expert witness for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, in the ACLU's lawsuit against the North Central Regional Library District, where a filter was enforced on library computers for all patrons including adults. Haselton's tests showed that sites which the library filter had blocked as "pornography" included a church, an immigration rights group, and the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, and overall that about one in four .org sites blocked by the library filter was blocked in error. ==Early life and education== Haselton was born in Oklahoma.〔 Haselton's father is a geophysicist and his mother is a piano teacher.〔(the Stranger. "Regular Genius: Bennett Haselton Attacks Censorship So We Can Say Fuck" by Pat Hearney. November 29, 2000. )〕 Haselton lived in England and Denmark and graduated from Copenhagen International School.〔(Copenhagen International School. "Dear Fellow CIS'ers (no "former" CIS'ers – it's a lifetime designation)" by Bennett Haselton. )〕 At 15, Haselton became a member of the Danish National Math Team, saying that "you don't have to be Danish."〔 Haselton's interest in censorship dates from when he was 10 years old and heard swear words for the first time.〔 "I remember my parents and some other adults talking about profanity to some kid," Haselton says.〔 "I just thought, 'Why not declare on midnight, January 1, that all swear words are not swear words anymore? Then there will be no such thing as foul language.'"〔 Haselton also credits growing up in Denmark for his views on censorship.〔 "In Denmark it's totally different," Haselton says.〔 "For example, between the train station and our school, there was a strip club that had pictures of topless dancers, and kids had to walk right by it. Nobody really thought anything about it. It never occurred to me until I came back to the US how something like that could never happen here. The club would have been fined and shut down."〔 In 1995 Haselton returned to the United States for college.〔(CNET. "Newsmaker: Cracking the great firewall of China" by Paul Festa. May 20, 2003. )〕 Haselton earned a master's degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University.〔 After graduation, Haselton worked on Visual Basic at Microsoft for seven months.〔 The ''New York Times'' said on May 15, 2000 that Haselton was fired from Microsoft〔(New York Times. "Ex-Microsoft Employee Publicizes a Potential Security Flaw" by Michael Brick. May 15, 2000. )〕 however Haselton says that he resigned in good standing and "showed the NYT editors a copy of () personnel file from Microsoft which has "Term. type: Voluntary" and "Term reason: Resignation" printed on it, but the paper has still not corrected the article."〔(PublicEditorMyAss.com. "My experience trying to get the New York Times to correct an online article" by Bennett Haselton. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bennett Haselton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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