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Email (and Filters) for all Australian schools
Tom Davies writes: "Every student and teacher in the state of New South Wales will have an email address and web access by March. And porn filtering to go with it, according to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald."
Hey .. could they filter my internet connection too so I don't get anymore porn popup ads?
wil
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Every student and teacher in the state of New South Wales will have an email address and web access by March. And porn filtering to go with it, according to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald.
That sounds like an evil scheme to hide the truth from the Austrailian schoolchildren that, yes, the New Zealanders are really having sex with the sheep...
When I finished high school in NSW, we had email addresses - but they all ended in hotmail.com We were actually graded on our ability to obtain a new hotmail account using an internet browser...
Keyword detection is a notoriously poor filter method. Just ask the people of Scunthorpe.
Cool... "porn filtering"...
This means that you will filter out all the boring news and weather reports and deliver me raw porn!... right?
:)
Surely it's more useful to teach children to be utter cynics, to laugh in the face of advertisements, to run netscape with javascript and animations turned off, to mute their TVs or make tea when adverts come on, to know what an email virus looks like and how to delete it, to know how to avoid pop-ups, porn redirects, and the like. To teach them life.
That said, for primary schools the internet will probably be more trouble than it's worth. Who needs to spend their time teaching, when you can spend that time trying to get a Windows/IE/Outlook/Internet computer to keep working?
They should just get BBC-B's like my primary school, and give each kid an audio tape to save their programs on!