"making it the law". It's a religious ruling that deals ONLY with those who
follow the ruling. No enforcement and no effect outside the community.
As for the program, that's exactly what's needed. Marketting is a snap as you
have to put a face on it for each community you go to.
> I have no problem with voluntary actions, rather my objection is to those
> that say thou shalt do this or else... And then try and make it the law.
>
> I like your idea of the program. It sounds almost the same as one a former
> employer developed. One of the people wrote a small program that trolled the
> web for pornographic sites. Then it stored the URL in a database. The
> blocking software checked to see if the site was in the blacklisted database
> before allowing access to that site. My part in the project was to write the
> app that allowed the review committee to examine each site and to vote
> whether it should or should not be banned.
>
> It was a great idea but the implementation and marketing sucked big time. If
> there could have been an incompetent approach to selling this thing to the
> public and to libraries, they found a way to do it. Case in point, thee was
> provision requiring libraries to filter adult sites from child accessible
> computers. This program met all the constitutional provisions, while others
> like websense and net nanny did not. You would have thought the marketing
> people would have been all over the American Library Association and similar
> groups getting the word out on this program. Nope not a peep. And that was
> typical. If there was a way this company could shoot itself in the foot it
> would find it.
>
> There was an unintended consequence to this project. The database itself
> after a very short while was probably the largest listing of porn sites in
> the world. I wanted to set up a mailing list that would cost about $25 per
> year to join, and it would guarantee that you would get a weekly listing of
> 100 unique sites for your viewing pleasure.
>
> Not only would the company have made money on the blocking software and
> database, they would have made even more on the porn list.
>
> Sigh.
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