Nice opinion Shankar dai, I consider internet as source of information
like any media or magazines. Filtering and restrictions has plagued
other countries in past leading to a BIGGER consequence, like
filtering other online contents as well. It has also sever privacy
concerns.

Related: http://opennet.net/

Manual parental monitoring of kids is better.

- Encourage kids to talk about their online activity with parents.
- Encourage parents to keep track of what their kids do and view online.
- Encourage parents to put computer/ internet in guest room in the
home preferably the TV room.

Strategical approach is far better than the technological approach.
Slapping a quick technological solution and closing your eye from the
social/psychological effects is not a solution. The idea of "you are
being watched" is noway a pleasant experience but you dont really get
it until you experience it. Parents will eventually build the
temptation of "need to know" everything about their kids using more
sophisticated software's which is definitely not a pleasant
experience.

I suggest you to stay out of software's. I say it because i really
know is use, potential and aftermaths.

Alternately, the only best technological solution to this problem is
from the ISP level. ISP's could offer anonymous proxies that could do
content filtering if a cyber / home user voluntarily wishes to use the
proxy for content-filtering.

AND If any such crazy idea about monitoring software exists in
Nepalese reality, I will make sure there is a point and click
mechanism to get around any sort of monitoring/restriction if the user
dont wish to be MONITORED.

all the best with your project,
-bipin

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