We also used X-Stop and loved it. They did a phenomenal job with their
service, and we actually made good money from charging for our
"filtering" service (especially to school districts and large
businesses). Each customer had their own "control center" and could make
adjustments, add exceptions or specifically block a URL. It was pretty
amazing software for it's time. :)
Travis
On 2/6/2018 9:12 AM, Craig House wrote:
Many many years ago in a land far away when Dial up was still in
demand, I had a dial up company that purchased a filtering service
from a company called X-Stop The company was later bought by 8e6
Technologies and they did an amazing job of both stopping access to
the undesired content and properly determining what was considered
Porn or Hate sites. I'm sure depending on the area of the country
you live in or the people you surround yourself with the description
would change but I never had any substantial complaints from the
customers that sites were not blocked that should be or visa versa.
They would never tell the actual process they used but they did tell
me several times that everything was reviewed by human eyes as a final
check. One of the criteria was the % of skin tone that would be on
the page. I'm sure that after 20 year that all the criteria would
have to change but I always thought they did a good job
Craig
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*From: *[email protected]
*To: *[email protected]
*Sent: *Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:48:38 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] blocking
I have some proposed legislation I am facing about porn blocking
again. But they are not defining the type of service. It is one
thing to block web traffic, but how about netflix or twitter or skype
or......
I want to play defense here and force the lawmakers to define exactly
what we need to block.
So can you guys help me develop a list of all the things we would have
to analyze and block if we were going to attempt to create a true
device that protects kids.
