Posted on 06/06/2007 7:36:37 AM PDT by RileyD, nwJ
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What is up with this?
The Chi-Coms object to “freedom”. It is unheard of in the Communist Party. Pay your share. Stop being selfish. Obey Big Brother...
That would do it.
I could see your reply but I couldn’t post a reply to your message on the second page, so I had to reply to post 101.
Thanks for the reply. I did that and get “Invalid URL”, My S/W is updated, and I can get to any other site. Never (in 3 years living here) have I been able to get to FoxNews.com with Verizon DSL (the web site loads but hangs up before completion(on Safari and IE). I can ping www.foxnews.com. Just called Verizon again and they will check on it and call me back.
The American Library Association instructs kids how to circumvent web filters.
Is Google a porn site then? It also has hotlinks to adult sites.
Non-sequitur. Playboy.com would be flagged for its original content, not because of the sites it links to.
I once went to playboy.com for work. Legitimately. I was compiling timelines for a 20th century review package, like the ones everyone did in 1999, and the first publication of Playboy was one of the cultural touchstones of the 1950s. I verified some of the particulars from their official corporate history.
I asked my boss to send me an e-mail formally assigning that to me -- so I'd be able to kick it upstairs if the corporate IT filter-sniffers came knocking. As I've said for years, part of being an employee is trying not to be the guy without a chair when the music stops.
Of course, journalism is different from a lot of other jobs. IT understood that all kinds of places could be the stuff of news, and also how easy it is to absent-mindedly type whitehouse.com and hit the porn site there. We were reassured that no single event would set of red flags, and the people and systems were designed to catch patterns of going back to porn, online casino, and so on sites.
I sought out, found and watched the video of Daniel Pearl's murder, because I thought I should see it if I was going to cover it in any way at all. It still haunts me. That was the first and last time I indulged that kind of curiosity. When Nick Berg was beheaded and the video was posted on the 'Net, I chose to take other folks' word for what the video showed. The pixilated video and audio were more than enough.
Not. Even. Close.
They enjoy pornography.
TG, I know you have taken note of the letters to the left of Chief Moose’s head, that spell out “Gomer”.
That’s a classic. I’ve not had that good a chuckle in ages.
Thanks!
Purely machine-driven filtering, to put it bluntly, sucks like an Electrolux. It's a chainsaw solution to a scalpel problem. Witness this thread, which began because someone's filters blocked FR.
Taxpayers at a public library are there, most of them, for information. Libraries should be in the business of delivering information, even if it's about sex or related issues. Automated filters are by their nature weird and arbitrary. They are not the answer.
Here is what I would like to see -- a big LCD monitor or monitors, with a split-screen view of the display of every terminal in the library. A librarian, and maybe even everyone in the room, should be able to monitor. The screen of each terminal would be too small to snoop by reading text, but large enough to see if someone is surfing nudie pics or porn videos.
That, and walk around. Just, for crying out loud, walk around. No filtering algorithm is smarter than a sane and conscious person looking over a user's shoulder.
Actually, the playboy.com issue is a valid one.
I use an accountability software service. It showed a hit on playboy.com recently. I knew I had not been there so I looked at the link. It was a photo that I recognized as having been hot linked to on here. I went back to that thread and checked the properties. Sure enough.
That ticked me off.
They ain't getting around mine. I restrict Internet access at the router. Only the proxy server is allowed Internet access. I also block web-based proxy sites as well as attempts to enter IP addresses directly.
What is your connection speed set at in your Internet Explorer. I recently helped a friend who could not get on some news site videos and that was the problem. FReepmail me if you want more detailed help.
Sure it is. Google Images is full of porn. You can filter it out and I do. Any site that serves up pornographic images is a porn site, whether that is it’s main purpose or not.
Next?
I like MM as the cheerleader in the video. ;-)
MM looks good in almost anything,,,,, I-I-I mean any video.
booble is
Eddie Haskell
It’s those pictures of Helen Thomas some people keep posting!
Free Republic is more dangerous than porn as it is clearly more addictive.
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