Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:29:45 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: freebsd box as a porn filter? Message-ID: <15198.58857.817134.579369@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <59315946@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > In which case I'd say what's the problem? > > My guess is that the people that work on the playboy.com website > routinely view porno on the Internet to see what their competitors > are doing. Certainly you can think of environments where viewing > it would be legitimate. Flash to early Dilbert strip, with Wally saying "I'm going to test the robustness of our network software under load by downloading large binary files from some of the busiest sites on net and examining them for errors." And after this gets nixed, thinking "Blast. I almost got looking at dirty pictures put on my task list." > But in most public libraries with children and parents running > around I somehow doubt that your girlfriend would be able to do this > for very long without being booted out. :-) If you watch the librarians lists - or talk to some librarians - you'll find out that they pretty uniformly dislike filtering. The pressures you mention are much more effective than filtering software, without the downside of blocking otherwise legitimate sites. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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