> By choosing a list of broad categories of what should be blocked, thus
> depending the judgement of the filtering company's automatic scripts and
> employees.
No, by choosing from a list of more than 40 categories of web sites based
on ALL content, whether 'naughty' or 'nice', including auction, chat,
education, employment search, for kids, free pages, games,
hate/discrimination, history, jokes, murder, nudity, news, stocks,
swimsuits, etc. Any site category can be blocked or allowed by the on-site
administrator (who has no affiliation with the filtering company) and any
_specific_ site can also be blocked or allowed by the administrator.
> By modifying two lists -- one to "always allow" and one to "always
> block". So you expect the librarians to somehow be aware of each new
> porn (or other "inappropriate") site every day, so they can keep the
> list updated? And let me tell you, those lists get unwieldy pretty
> quick. :)
The web is dynamic, and any solution to filter the web must be
dynamic also. This is why software-based filtering technology (as I
described earlier) will not work. However, a proxy-based solution updated
daily with new URL's that are categorized into types of sites (yes,
by the filtering company) which are decided to be blocked or unblocked by
the librarian (based on the rules already established by the district or
other administrative association who is actually in control of the
content that enters the library), can keep up with the constantly-changing
internet.
If a library would like to separate the kids-under-12 section of the
library computers with the adult section of the library computers, and
allow such categories as kids only, education, games, and history sites to
their computers but open the internet to all categories on the adult's
side, this is the type of dynamic filtering that I am talking about.
Many comments that I have seen here, in newspapers, and in other
areas about filtering are made on assumptions about the technology
without researching the facts about what is available.
Jen
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Aaron Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:03:32PM -0800, Jen Hamilton wrote:
> > The initial list of what is allowed and what is blocked is determined by
> > the person who buys the filtering at the time of install,
>
> By choosing a list of broad categories of what should be blocked, thus
> depending the judgement of the filtering company's automatic scripts and
> employees.
>
> > and can be changed at any time by anyone who has authorized
> > access to that system.
>
> By modifying two lists -- one to "always allow" and one to "always
> block". So you expect the librarians to somehow be aware of each new porn
> (or other "inappropriate") site every day, so they can keep the list
> updated? And let me tell you, those lists get unwieldy pretty quick. :)
>
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