Re: [OS:N:] Re: School Filtering

[Jeremy Hogan <jhogan redhat com>]

Great points, we'll never get to the bottom of the free speech debate,
but we can push to be able to have sensible default blocklists and that
they be controlled by free and open software.

It's not censorship if we can truly tweak the block rules. It is if they
force the use of software that we can't tell what's blocked until we try
each URL.

--jeremy

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:16, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2002, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
> 
> > Open Source in education and *legislative* issues. Not that hard to
> > connect the dots. If they are forcing them to use filtering, I want
> > that filtering to be Open Source. There, now it fits *both* of the
> > main criteria.
> 
> If we're on this track, we should go further.
> 
> The data most blocking companies use (ie, the 'blacklist' sites) is highly
> proprietary, since it's their bread and butter revenue producer... the
> client software that applies the blacklist should be fairly trivial.
> 
> Now, since this info is proprietary, end-users almost never have direct
> access to the list. How do you know if breast cancer organizations are
> being ranked as pornographic?
> 
> Anyone who is interested in this issue is recommended to have a look at
> the site http://censorware.net where The Censoreware Project offers a
> fairly current and detailed look at the current state of filtering
> software.
> 
> It seems fairly ignorant of open source technologies. I recognize the name
> of one of the Project members as someone I once worked with; I'll contact
> hom and see what the Project says or knows about stuff like squidGuard or
> DansGuardian.
> 
> - Evan
> 
> 
> 
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