My crusade for web content filtering

Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:14:38 -0700

I agree with you both. I have met David's children, so I know
he is doing a good job, they;re great kids.

I think what David's point was that even though that little
girl had accidently hit the wrong URL, so what. My daughter
has done the same.

Good home teaching/office policies are what dictate whether
you or the child decides that it was, indeed, the wrong
place to be. And, as a result, decide to stay or go.

It's a tough line to be on when you are in the technoligical
drivers seat.

Mike

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:13AM -0700, Kevin Saling wrote:
 Heh, I'm not trying to create a totalitarian network where the filtering is
 absolute.  All I'm trying to do is provide some guidance for kids and avoid
 the accidental filth from popping up on the browser.  If kids want to seek
 it out, it's not within my power to prevent it...  they _will_ find it.
 That's a parental guidance issue, not a technological one.  I'm only
 interested in preventing the accidental exposure to inappropriate material
 (as defined by the party in charge of the filter) for the younger ones.

 If you don't believe this is a problem, consider this little incident that
 got me started down this road.

 A child was web surfing with her mother looking for a friend's birthday
 gift.  The child had seen www.generationgirl.com advertised on a box of
 cereal.  She mistakenly typed in www.girl.com and gave her mother quite a
 shock.

 Anyway, philosophy aside, my understanding is that squid does _not_ provide
 access to the data stream.  ActiveGuardian has serious compile issues and
 JunkEx (once I finally got it installed with help from the developer in
 Germany) doesn't work for this purpose.

 I am now considering writing my own proxy that will simply pipe the
 datastream through a perl script or something before delivering it to the
 browser.  Any page that matched one of the keywords would have the entire
 contents between <html> and </html> replaced with a text message.  Simple,
 but probably very slow.  Not to mention, I have NO idea how to code this.

 ...Kevin

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
 > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
 > sinck@owmyeye.ugive.com
 > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:50 AM
 > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
 > Subject: My crusade for web content filtering
 >
 > \_ I am trying to create a web content filter at the choke point
 > of my network
 > \_ that will provide a safe web surfing environment for children
 > downstream (on
 > \_ the internal LAN).
 >
 > My particular bent on this is that you shouldn't filter *at all*.  If
 > little Jack is interested on how the birds and bees fit together, he's
 > gonna find out one way or the other.  Maybe visiting the library and
 > looking at the 'art' books.  If Jill wants to find out about doobies
 > and gnapster isn't providing her the brotherly answer already, then a
 > side trip, again, to the accursed public library will.  Or, as
 > mentioned before, jargon + JLF-proxy....

 ---[snip]---

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