Hello. My name is Thom Gillespie. I write for a magazine

[G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl]

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawtell at paradise.net.nz]
Sent: zaterdag 16 maart 2002 10:52
To: squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: Re: Hello. My name is Thom Gillespie. I write for a magazine


G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:
> A story:
> 
> Filters at home and at school?

Yes. Let me put you in the local picture a bit. Recently here in NZ 
there has been a fairly full on witch-hunt looking for people who abuse 
their Internet access at work, and a fair number of people have lost 
their jobs. In this context, which is rammed into the consciousness 
almost daily by the mass media, I think it's little wonder that an 
intelligent and sensitive lad feels that he would prefer not to have the 
worry of having pornographic images suddenly popping up on the screen 
when he is using the Internet. 


Ger: Yes, I know, an educator from Canada showed me several years ago that
people make this kind of websites with adresses that you type when you
mistype, for example sesamstreet instead of sesamestreet.


I think he must have either made a typing 
error or gone to an old site, which had been abandoned and replaced with 
an automatic forward. Anyway he found himself at a particularly 
revolting pornsite which used JavaScript to re-program the buttons so 
that it was impossible to either leave the site or to close the browser 
window. As a result I am putting SquidGuard on the cache.

Ger: I still wonder how you will filter pictures when the website does not
use obscene textmarkers...
(a special porno channel only works for the good guys in the business.)


 Don't worry, 
when he is older we will "open the floodgates".

I just wish that the porno broadcasters could be compelled to use a port 
number other than 80 while they are exercising their right to free-speech.

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