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There are some of us the would love an ability to opt-out of certain parts of the internet. I understand the problem with censorship. But I would love the optio
by xupybd 13y ago
There are some of us the would love an ability to opt-out of certain parts of the internet. I understand the problem with censorship. But I would love the option to opt-out. Especially when children are involved.
The internet is an amazing source of information. But currently it is not safe to leave a child alone on the internet. Is there a way to keep every one happy?
- zimpenfish 13y agoThen, uh, don't leave a child alone on the internet...? Or install your own filtering software / proxy / whatnot. (At which point someone normally says "but those don't work" and the sane people go "and you expect a nationwide one to work instead?")
- noarchy 13y agoParticularly, filters run by government. If private companies struggle to do this, imagine how poorly a team of bureaucrats will be at this.
- cmircea 13y agoOpenDNS. Either use categories or pick your own domains to block. If you want to block IPs, use a firewall or the hosts file.
- inthewind 13y agoNot really practical to manage a list of domains or IPs yourself, but the idea of using an opt-in filter on your DNS could offer a simple filter. You'd need to make configuring such things a little easier. Under Vista just trying to conjure up the IPv4 control panel requires an act of magic.
- cmircea 13y agoWell you can use a filter and manually add sites to that. I did use OpenDNS a long time ago and it was pretty easy to filter the most common stuff.
- desas 13y agoMove to an ISP that allows this. Talk talk have an opt-in network level filter for example.
- acuozzo 13y ago> But currently it is not safe to leave a child alone on the internet. How is it not safe?