On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Yonah Russ wrote:
adults. If a parent really want's they're kids looking at porn sites, they'll give them their password.
Correct. And since they should have their own passwords and email why not buy them an internet account from an ISP that provides filtered service.
Implementing password access at a cafe etc is impossible and undesirable, as everyone uses NAT and appears as one user. The filter would have to run at the cafe and provide differential login by age, and the filter would have to be updated every second as new sites are created. Public places are public because they are public. That includes airports, hotel lounges etc. Besides, are you aware of a url known as http://www.the-cloak.com ? There are thousands like it, and those used in China, NK etc also use encryption to make sure that no comrade or mullah from the thought police catches them.
You cannot police a country because x teenagers might look at something, and you cannot police the internet in the first place because you so decided. So far the only means that have proven succesfull for muzzling servers have been legal. Places were shut down, servers confiscated. Two weeks later they started operating again from offshore servers, with multi-homing and backup servers in case some crazy commandos jump their new site somehow.
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