The problem is, there are a lot of uninformed, scared people who think censorship like this is a good thing. I'm sure my mother thinks the world is a better place today because Utah's action. The libraries will stay open because too few people will have a problem with all this. If a community wants smut out of the library, and a libarian's options are to throw some janky software on the computer or tell the local parents to raise their kids right, censorship ho!
For a long time, I've felt that they should just make it SIMPLE by requiring any sex related web site to have.adult as a DNS suffix. Forget.com,.org or whatever,.adult. Simple. NetNanny (or whatever programs censor) then have no problems. Heck, you could even code the browser to do it.
Any "sex-related" web site? What on earth does that mean? I assume you mean pornography, but even that's not easily defined. This scheme would prevent people from putting "sex-related" material on their personal pages, and would be utterly unenforceable.
Be a smart person. That's the only way to protect yourself and your kids from things you don't like.
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The problem is, there are a lot of uninformed, scared people who think censorship like this is a good thing. I'm sure my mother thinks the world is a better place today because Utah's action. The libraries will stay open because too few people will have a problem with all this. If a community wants smut out of the library, and a libarian's options are to throw some janky software on the computer or tell the local parents to raise their kids right, censorship ho!
For a long time, I've felt that they should just make it SIMPLE by requiring any sex related web site to have .adult as a DNS suffix. Forget .com, .org or whatever, .adult. Simple. NetNanny (or whatever programs censor) then have no problems. Heck, you could even code the browser to do it.
Any "sex-related" web site? What on earth does that mean? I assume you mean pornography, but even that's not easily defined. This scheme would prevent people from putting "sex-related" material on their personal pages, and would be utterly unenforceable.
Be a smart person. That's the only way to protect yourself and your kids from things you don't like.