[Da Mav]

No, the Filter Company decides what it will filter. If you are serious and not just trolling or pushing your web page you need to do some basic research and find out what you are talking about.

You can dress it up any way you want technically but in the end, somebody is going to decide which sites will be blocked, usually based on a market decision as to what the majority of consumers of the software might want blocked. Using majority opinion to decide freedom of speech is ludicrous; that's why there is a First Amendment. To protect us from people who think their version of "common sense" should apply to everyone.

[MizzouTigerRepublican]

Also who is going to stop the people who make up the banned lists from looking the other way at a site that may "pay" them for their "research".

I have a better idea. How about the parents taking some responsibility or removing the computers from the children's section. I grew up without a computer in my library and seemed to do ok.

[NMFXSTC]

And filters are quite cirumventable...a transposed letter, an inserted numbber...voila...no filter! (Remember Napster and the substitution of "dc/ac" for AC-DC, or rOllInG SToneZ???