Re: [OS:N:] School filtering

[Jonathan Moore <moorejon usd465 com>]

I agree with your sentiments. 

We have used Squid/SquidGuard in the past. We eventually switched to a solution 
that did active content filtering using "Artificial Intelligence." But the 
company in question doesn't manage the filter server as well as our in house 
staff. As a result of this thread I am going to try to test Dans Guardian 
today, since it sounds very similar to what we are paying $1 per computer per 
month for and we wouldn't have the management and control issues.
-- 
Jonathan Moore
Directory of Technology
Winfield Public Schools
Office 620.221.5100
Fax 620.221.0508


Quoting Ken Willett <kwillett ignisys com>:

> I work with a grade school and a high school, and they have different views
> on filtering. At the high school, there is no filtering, and students are
> expected to sign and abide by an acceptable use policy which prohibits
> pornography, hate sites, etc. I'm sure the rules aren't always followed, but
> there doesn't seem to be a big issue there.
> 
> At the grade school, there is a parental expectation that filtering will be
> provided. Parents who are not very Internet-savvy, but have heard horror
> stories, demand it, and arguments about the evils of censorship are unlikely
> to carry the day (after all, movies are rated, aren't they?)
> 
> In practice, there are lots of objectionable sites which aren't blocked;
> there are just too many and are put up too fast. And sometimes perfectly
> innocouous sites are blocked; www.americangirl.com, which is a site related
> to a magazine for young girls, was on our blocked list. In some cases an
> entire site, like www.yahoo.com, is on the blocked list because it indexes
> objectionable material.
> 
> We use SquidGuard, which is a plug-in for the open source Squid proxy
> server. It probably doesn't have the most up-to-date blacklists, but it is
> free, and I can go in to the lists and remove or add sites easily. But
> there's no substitute for having adults walking around and looking at what
> the kids are doing.
> 
> 
> 
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