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Peacefire is primarily concerned with [[free speech]] rights. The authors on the site have been opponents of web content [[Internet filter|filtering]] and [[content-control software]], which they refer to as [[censorware]]<ref>{{cite web|title=About Peacefire|url=http://www.peacefire.org/info/about-peacefire.shtml}}</ref> or ''blocking software''. They have offered [http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/ numerous methods] for defeating common web filters, and this has drawn some interest from the Internet community. The site has conducted long battles against the most commonly used filter programs, including, most famously, [[SurfwatchSurfWatch]], [[Net Nanny]], [[SurfControl|CyberPatrol]], and [[Bess (content-control software)|Bess]]. In particular, Peacefire has demonstrated that the filter programs suppress political speech and filter preferentially for corporate and [[Conservatism|conservative]] causes. In other cases, Peacefire has presented evidence that several filtering programs block some websites without having a human being review those sites first, despite the filtering companies' claims to the contrary. However, Peacefire is not usually active against filters that act in a more neutral way. Peacefire criticised [[SurfWatch]] for indiscriminately blocking gay and lesbian web sites.