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MarkC

Besides restating that you're going to break the internet and try introduce a single point of failure, and besides highlighting the ridiculous flaws in this hairbrained scheme, I have a few other points about this concept that I totally HATE.

I found my 8 year old son reading articles on the SMH titled "teen rape death plunge horror" and another titled something about "Satanic Sluts". Are you going to safeguard him from that highly inappropriate content? It might not be porn but I can assure you it caused him significant grief and stress, and as a parent I would want to know that any "filter" could be switched on to avoid that. Also, he used Google Images to search for "Black Hole" and you can imagine what he found. Is your silly scheme going to protect him from that? (I am sure the answer is "NO").

You cannot filter inappropriate content outright, as the sources are too variable and inappropriate is highly subjective (no matter what you say about the list's guardians) and I for one would like to see all religious content filtered. Some religious weasels will undoubtedly get control of your filter and will then start their traditional process of confusing crime with sin. How will you safeguard against that?

Please, take your filter elsewhere. Maybe you should go with it.

 
Document ID: 94413 | Last modified: 22 December 2008, 4:18pm