Posted on 06/20/2009 4:46:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
I understand that John Scherer can help in this situation. "Try my product."
Requiring ID from users --may-- reduce sexual content,
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Is it Nanny State or Mommy State?
I always get them confused.
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I don't care if I am the last person standing but soft porn is as bad as "hard" porn....I put them all in the same category.....immoral,unethical,unChristian, UnGodly, inhumane.....anything from Hooters to the S/M crap....it all panders to the lowest common denominator, and what we are finding is that the old lows are nothing compared to the new lows in human behaviour....
many people can rationalize about the Playboys and the Hooters or the "kids being kids" nonsense.....but it all come from one rotten cauldron of stew......it encourages girls and women to be whores or act like whores and it encourages boys and men to act like animals.....
and people that engage any of it are condoning it and passing this on to our children....
quote that I came across that I like....
"Silence in the face of evil is in itself, evil...God will not hold us guiltless...Not to speak is to speak..Not of act is to act."
Popman: :)
Thanks, guys.
The reason we did what we did is that the commercial software that allows you to blacklist sites just wasn’t good enough. I was paying $30 per computer for the software, and the children were still able to get through without even trying.
One day, one of my sons just typed “baseball” in a Google search and you wouldn’t believe what appeared. A lot of web sites just don’t bother to tell the monitoring software anything about their content.
That was the end of that. I installed the Linux firewall and proxy, using Dansguardian. Rather than a blacklist that you have to continually update, Dansguardian has a whitelist that is a list of sites that are allowed.
The only time I have to update that list is if somebody sends a link to one of my children in their email. I get to check it out first, and if I think it’s ok, I’ll put it in the whitelist.
One of my preteen daughters was sending email to a boy I did not want her to contact. Her siblings ratted her out. So I installed Squid on the Linux gateway. Now, all email transactions are copied to my account.
Needless to say, there are no web-based mail servers in the Dansguardian whitelist.
We’ve made our mistakes, and that’s why we tightened it everything up so much.
Oh, and all the Linux software was free. The computer that we installed it on was an old Dell box that my brother-in-law wasn’t using anymore. So our whole gateway-firewall-netproxy-mailserver was free.
This is Netmilsmoms, Husband:
OK, so I replace my Linksys firewall with the Dansguardian Linux firewall. Squid is a web cache package for Apache, I don’t quite understand how installing Squid has anything at all to do with SMTP.
Didn’t you have to register an MX record to enable email on your Dansguardian Linux box or do you have it as a forwarder / SPAM filter only?
Thanks,
To get an idea how to set squid up to handle email clients in a local network, have a look at this.
http://www.unix.com/ip-networking/29730-squid-email-client.html
Enjoy!
:)
If the filter is on the computer itself, then yea. The filter needs to be on the gateway to the internet. White Lists, and or black lists. Most modern "home" routers have such capability. They can even restrict hours of internet activity for the kids IP.
You should be proud of his searching skills. I just tried the baseball query (with SafeSearch turned off) and saw nothing unexpected in the first 30 results. Plenty of M-L-B but no M-I-L-F.
Generally, I find it quite rare to run into porn on the internet by mistake and easy to find it deliberately. Also, I use GMail, so I never see spam unless I look in the Spam folder. Even whitehouse.com is gone as a joke to play on people. It used to be a porn site. Now it's some sort of media site.
> I just tried the baseball query (with SafeSearch turned
> off) and saw nothing unexpected in the first 30 results.
> Plenty of M-L-B but no M-I-L-F.
This was over a year ago, and at least that’s what he told me. Was he lying? Can’t say for sure. I do know that his access is limited to the whitelist now.
What are M-L-B and M-I-L-F?
> Also, I use GMail,
No external mail servers for the children. We need to know who they’re talking to.
We see everything, even their spam. Interestingly, they don’t seem to get much spam at all.
MLB is Major League Baseball. Google will be pleased to decode the other acronym for you.
Whatever.
There’s pornography on the Internet?
Congratulations for taking appropriate steps to 1. guard
you and yours from the “dark side” of the ‘Net (and ‘Web)
and 2. tell us about it, with specifics.
Even in the pre-Warren Court era, when regulation of such
material was allowed (in states and local jurisdictions, BTW)
parents did take care and review all matter brought into
the home. The need for that oversight cannot ever be
completely delegated, ever.
bump your post for later viewing.
And our means of online survival is Darwinist.
> And our means of online survival is Darwinist.
I disagree. Online survival requires purposeful, deliberate, applied intelligence.
But I LOVE your tagline!
:)
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