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What Filters Are Right For Kids?
WaywardGeek writes "My daughter is using phrases like 'hot guys,' and soon will have a chat about the birds and the bees. I believe in letting kids discover the world as it is, and have no Internet controls on any of our systems, which are mostly Linux based. However, it's not fair for aggressive porn advertisers to splash sex in her face without her permission. My question is: What Linux-based Internet filtering solution do Slashdot dads favor, and do they hinder a child's efforts to learn about the world?"
Cheesecloth works pretty good to get the chunks out.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Filter or no filter, its just bad for them especially at that age.
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
Um . . . "splash sex in her face" . . . oooooh-kaaaaaay . . .
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
I suggest you filter all your daughter's internet queries through a time machine that leads to a not so distant past where "splash in her face" was not a part of the male collective consciousness.
That should scare her away for a couple of decades.
NOW.
Filter out the obvious stuff. You won't stop a dedicated teen from finding what they want, but you can try to stop them from getting things they don't want that are inappropriate.
I have a daughter and a son, and yes, knowing there will be a day when my kids are looking for 'Hot [Gender of choice]' scares the shit out of me.
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Today mine got up at 5 a.m. My answer would have to be, "coffee filters".
I only whitelist the sites that teach good lessons for their development into adulthood:
Zombo.com: You can do ANYTHING there.
Goatse: What better way to show what one can accomplish if you put your mind to it?
2G1C: Teamwork and empowerment
Lemonparty: Appreciation for the elderly.
I'd list more, but CPS is here. Must be donation season or something.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.
If she is clever enough to get IE to run properly on the aforementioned linux systems, she is clever enough to configure her own porn-blocker...
You're a sick bastard for saying what everyone else was only thinking.
You demand that the government censor the entire internet for the safety of The Children!
;)
Extra Slim Filter Tips should definitely be considered when purchasing filters.
Actually there is good deal on at Amazon currently only £11.99: Extra Slim Filter.
I'm a bit worried about the 4 used & new available from £5.85
sudo apt-get install pr0nfilter
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
find out what her reasons are, why she wants to look at hot guys.
Ummmm, let me guessssssss.... DNA? Why do I enjoy looking at hot girls?
A GOOD father would train their daughter from an early age to be interested in GEEKY guys.
well if you want your kids to learn fast, just grab your favorite open source browser and hard-code the URL so she can only go to Belladonna's website. Make sure you provide her with a credit card too. After a month or so you can rest assured that nothing on the internet will really shock her anymore. Then you can set her browser back to normal.
there. another problem solved by asking slashdot.
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
Porn is only unrealistic if you have a girlfriend who doesn't like porn. Now if you'll pardon me, I have a donkey and a midget waiting for me on the bondage rack.
Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google
When I was ten, a google was a fixed (i.e., not random) value. Also:
So, no, I can't relate to your example. Now get off my lawn.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll
And if she does change it, hey, she just learned an important lesson about proxies.
Everything will be taken away from you.
I have to ask...do people REALLY that often, hit porn sites by accident?
Yes, every time my wife or boss walks in and there's porn on the screen? Accident.
I've gone to whitehouse.com in front of ~80 people, deans and other faculty mainly, doing a presentation on Netscape 2 and all the nifty features including domain completion. "And here you can see I type in 'stanford' and it goes to www.stanford.edu without typing anymore. A handy shortcut. Let's try another, whitehouse, let's see what the president is doi.... aww crap." Projected on a 50' screen. Lovely day.
Actually it can happen even for experienced users. A Google search for the color of the plumes of a bird (which my colleagues had found and wanted to know the gender) made me realize there were a LOT of other synonyms for female genitalia that I didn't even know...
A CC-licensed illustrated horror novel
It's rare that I win the race to say something first on the internet. I am soooo proud today.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm trying desperately to repress my memories of Metacrawler, and Altavista (half-decent) and Webcrawler before that...
Eww. I hope it wasn't a thrush.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
Every good product is actually just a lie the customer wants to hear.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Learned this one the hard way, do a google image search for "penny" with safe search turned off.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Personally, I think Camel filters are the best for kids.
My ex keeps trying various filtering software to keep my eldest son {age 14} from viewing porn... with pretty predictable results. One Google search for a workaround, and he's back in business.
I was more than amused when she tried to complain to me. "Gee, son, follow the rules" was what came out of my mouth, although I couldn't keep from smiling. "Way to figure it out and disable it so you can see what you're so curious about!" was what was going through my mind, though.
Heck, when I was his age, I was hip-deep in porn mags at my friend's house. I can't blame him for hormones.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Or maybe his brain has started to decline, and he's just forgotten how to spell it....
Guilty as charged. Now GET OFF MY...
...have you seen my glasses?
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll
Let's try another, whitehouse, let's see what the president is doi...
Clinton was President then, wasn't he?
What?? You still get the delicious Turkish tobacco taste without the unwanted tar. Not only insightful but informative!
Hey, that was another great suggestion! I'm a bit embarrassed I wasn't already using it. I've not had much time to play with it, but thepiratebay.com has seemed to think I really need to meet a girl living near me for years. Different nearby towns, names, and ages, but always the same girl! I almost feel like I know her... I certainly know all her bathing suits. Now thepiratebay.com has nothing but whitespace where she use to be!
I think I'm happier with both Adblock Plus and a DNS based filter. Both free, easy, and useful.
Celebrate failure, and then learn from it - Nolan Bushnell
I hope he speaks from experience, I'd love to meet his porn loving daughter!
Different nearby towns, names, and ages, but always the same girl! I almost feel like I know her... I certainly know all her bathing suits. Now thepiratebay.com has nothing but whitespace where she use to be!
That's still her. She just moved to Alaska and it's blizzarding.
"Daddy what's that?"
"That's how babies are made sweetheart."
"Oh. Do you and mommy do that?"
"Not anymore. (sigh)"
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Bloody archers...
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