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Censorship concerns/debate aside, if you can opt-out of the filtering, isn't that a rather simple solution and quick fix? Or is the filter only for porn and the

• mhurron 13y ago
  The latter and even when you opt out it appears to log everything.
  • electromagnetic 13y ago
    Well basically you're both running through a proxy, just one is assigned "kid" privileges and one is assigned "adult" privileges. This is how my high school handled it way back when, Student accounts were put into kid privileges so obviously porn was blocked but also flash games, etc. However it was easy to circumvent by just finding a different site not on the blocked list and it'd take a couple of weeks for the proxy to update with the new games sites and then the hunt began again. It was always a race against time as the proxy company was constantly supplied with the sites we were going to. So when 50 something kids are accessing some bizarre dutch domain name, they'll eventually look and find another site they had to ban. The primary concern is that anyone who opts out of the filter will be being used to supply sites for the proxy to block, which is an ingenious way to do it when you're a commercial company. However, this is the government and being on a 'naughty' list is just giving them a blackmail list to compile against anyone. I never get this logic either that the people must be oppressed, because surely people would read a fucking history book and figure out that always ends really poorly for the necks of those doing the oppressing. Oppress people enough and you won't see them voting by the masses for an upstart political party, you'll be seeing a Maoist revolution from the downtrodden working class.