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A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering

Posted by timothy on from the your-own-shade-of-rose dept.

Roblimo writes "Not all parents want their children exposed to everything on the Internet, especially porn. So far, virtually all home-level Net filtering software has been for Windows. This tutorial on NewsForge, by Joe Bolin, shows Linux-using parents how to set up Web filtering for *their* children -- and shows them how to customize filters to fit their own tastes and beliefs instead of relying on a commercial software company's ideas of 'good' and 'bad,' too."

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  1. robbIE's GUIde to /. user censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    that would be the whoreabully infactdead PostBlock devise, which almost never works.

    as far as protecting yOUR kids from nefarious scamsters, teach them early the difference (it still exists) between what's ok, & what's just plain fauxking evile.

    most of all, consult with/trust in yOUR creators... carefully straining yOUR pablum, since/until forever.