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What Filters Are Right For Kids?

Posted by timothy on from the cue-the-scorn-cannons dept.

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?"

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  1. Depends on how fine you grind them by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheesecloth works pretty good to get the chunks out.

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  2. They shouldn't be smoking at all! by aapold · · Score: 5, Funny

    Filter or no filter, its just bad for them especially at that age.

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  3. "hot guys" should redirect to Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should scare her away for a couple of decades.

  4. You do the only logical thing by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Funny

    You demand that the government censor the entire internet for the safety of The Children!

    ;)

  5. Re:The simple one. by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 5, Funny

    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:

    • The World Wide Web did not exist.
    • For that matter the INTERNET did not exist.
    • I had never seen a color TV (though I had heard about them, and was curious)
    • Home electronics ran on vacuum tubes.
    • John F. Kennedy was President of the United States.

    So, no, I can't relate to your example. Now get off my lawn.

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  6. Re:The simple one. by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:The simple one. by dawich · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:The simple one. by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  9. Re:The simple one. by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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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