Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Filtering Doesn't Work. Education Might.
Internet filtering will not keep your children safe. Your children probably know more about computers than you; they will find or make holes in your software. Even if you whitelist, ban chat and p2p programs, block Google image search, and block every video and image hosting website, you'll never come close to blocking everything. If that's your strategy, you might as well just call up your ISP and cancel. Even then, you cannot monitor your children at their friend's house, at the library, or when they grow up. Filtering can prevent you from stumbling into undesired materials, but it cannot stop someone from breaking out. Teach your children how to use the internet safely. Teach them to be good. Then trust them to make the right decisions. I call it parenting.
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I think that you need a little of both outward and inward safeguards. While you are teaching your children correct principles, you must keep them safe until they completely develop the virtue they need. However, just filters aren't going to work, certainly.
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