Re: Porn Lists (Maybe Off Topic)

actually its very relevant in Australia at the moment where all isps will
have the legal responsiblity of blocking any objectional material from
users such as X rated porn because of new laws that have just been passed
by a bunch of politicians with very little clue :}

meridian

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Olivier Tourchon wrote:
>
> > I Think it is an administrator's work to show users what can be useful on
> > the Internet and what can be useless.
>
> In real life the network managers view of usefulness is quite different
> from the end users point of view, and at many locations a policy must be
> enforced on the users or they will not care.
>
> > The Internet is a Free Based Communication and Knowledge medium, I'm not
> > sure it is such a good idea to let machines do human's work... unless you
> > want Microsoft to block access to *.netscape.* and *.*ix.* in Internet
> > explorer 6...
>
> It depends a lot on the context.
>
> For an ISP this kind of content filtering does not make much sense
> unless the customers ask for it. At an ISP content filtering should be
> seen as a service, not a rule.
>
> The situation is however very different in a corporate or educational
> site where internet access is primarily seen as a tool and not for
> amusement. At such sites content filtering is one of the ways to educate
> the users on what they are allowed to use the organisations internet
> connection for, and to keep the ignorant abusers away.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Squid hacker
>
Received on Fri Jul 23 1999 - 18:51:54 MDT