Whitelists for Overzealous Internet Filters?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 22, 2003 @11:15AM from the but-only-if-you're-on-the-list dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "We've all seen how plenty of bad examples of Internet filtering in libraries and schools, so I need not list any. After browsing the aforementioned YRO archives &c., I had an interesting proposal. Books that people *want* the public to see are submitted to libraries to be placed on the shelves. So why not come up with a similar solution of the public submitting lists of websites to be *allowed* access from the libraries. Project Gutenberg or The Bible blocked? No problem, just ask a librarian to add the domain to the allow list." Would this be a practical way around overzealous filters?

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Interesting by __aafkqj3628 · 2003-01-22 11:28 · Score: 2, Informative

It is a very interesting idea, but the workload to keep it updated and maintained would be huge, not to mention examining the websites and making sure everybody likes it before it is added to the list.

Over here in christchurch, the public libraries have public internet terminals which you can only access sites within .nz (kinda lame, but otherwise everybody would use them for porn) or you can pay for access. I just use my connection at home.