Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites, Study Finds

The New York Times ^ | 12/11/02 | JOHN SCHWARTZ

[ppaul]

"Filters are just fine for parents to use at home," said Judith F. Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. "They are not appropriate for institutions that might be the only place where kids can get this information."

Moron.
Kids don't need to get this information.

[Karsus]

http://www.peacefire.org/

Please go to the above site to see how broad most of these filters are.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

blocked by filter at work because they consider this site an advocate group site.

[ppaul]

The main reason these groups are complaining is because they want our children exposed to homosexual activist propaganda by any means possible.

[Minutemen]

Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites

Right, if you consider porn sites to be useful. Everything the kiddies need to know about AIDS can be said in one paragraph:

AIDS IS CONTAGIOUS; AVOID DRUG USE; AVOID HOMOSEXUALITY; PRACTICE MONOGAMY.

[ppaul]

blocked by filter at work because they consider this site an advocate group site.

It is.
Homos and ACLU activists.

[ppaul]

Ping.

[Always Right]

"Filters are just fine for parents to use at home," said Judith F. Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. "They are not appropriate for institutions that might be the only place where kids can get this information."

Yes, and the #1 site the American Library Association recommends is Go Ask Alice, where they actually recommend that you use a condom if you have sex with animals and discuss such great topics as safe rimming.....yep, kids have to know this kind of stuff....

[B Knotts]

Some examples of what actually gets blocked

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

well, I do work for a canadian company. You'd think they'd be more tolerant. ha HA!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

well, I do work for a canadian company. You'd think they'd be more tolerant. ha HA!

[B Knotts]

This one's gotta be the funniest:

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272. Homogeneous Transformation Matrices #4140
http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/HTransf.htm (in Janes sample)
Blocked by: N2H2 (Sex - Jul 14, Jul 26, Sep 11, Oct 7)
Yahoo: /Science/Mathematics/Linear Algebra/
Google: /Science/Math/Algebra
Explicit n-dimensional homogeneous matrices for projection, dilation, reflection, shear, strain, rotation...

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[ppaul]

Thanks for the link.
If kids need to view those sites, they can do so at home with their parents' permission. We do not need to fund public libraries to give kids access to a lot of that garbage - which most of those sites are peddling.

[B Knotts]

True.

My interest in this is that I'd be ashamed to release software that worked that poorly.

I think there are some that work better, though.

[B Knotts]

I'd go so far as to question the need to have public access Internet terminals in public libraries, anyhow.

[Mr. Bird]

I'm still confused about all of this. When I was in school, we were in class all day, had 5 minutes between them to scurry about in a frenzy. The library was a resource for checking books out, but rarely did we have time to linger unless there as an entire class, supervised.

That said, I know some schools have "empty" periods, or study halls which provide time for the students to go to the library to ostensibly study. If you are going to have internet access in the library, have each kid log on and off and review the sites they visited. If they've gone to porn sites, punish them the same way you would if you found a Penthouse in a kid's bookbag. Or, use the filters and recognize that some good content will be blocked. Who cares? What's the big issue here?

[ivoteright]

I agree that the programs are necessary. However, my geography students are constantly getting booted off of the National Geographic website. The school's filter senses "pornographic material," and I have to go through the technology police to get around the wall.

[Texaggie79]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!

[ppaul]

This is BREAKING NEWS.
The article states that "the report, [is] to be published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. "
You are reading about now it on FR before it is even published in the AMA Journal.

[Texaggie79]

So you got it on a technicality.....