I agree with Gaurab dai. Making parents aware about the how to safeguard their children against visiting unwanted site is logical. This awareness is indeed necessary. Freedom and access to information is essential, until the reader can interpret and use it in a rational way. Still, it is better to let parents implement and use such filters rather than some ISP or centralized system doing it. Following a centralized content filtering system will create chaos, and the decision of what contnet to allow and what content to block is solely upon them. This again requires a regulation which guides all these process. Moreover since computers are shared at use, advanced technology (or authentication) mechanism is needed to verify and validate the user and implement filtering mechanisms. _________________________________________________________
Regards, Abhishek Singh Fedora 10 (Cambridge) is releasing on 25th Nov, 2008 http://fedoraproject.org On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya < [email protected]> wrote: > > Bipin Gautam wrote: > > > 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. > > tell my why are you in favour of a centralized technological soltuion > (which of course has a higher probability of mis-utilization by the > governments to spy on people),then giving the choice of > blocking/sanitizing content into the hands of end-users. ? > > I see any centralized systems you support above, as a much bigger > threat, technologically a lot more expensive, and also against the > general philosophy of FOSS. It should be about choice and informed > decisions right ? and it's definitely not the 'best' solution - probably > the 'worst' solution, in my view. Let the power be in the hands of > people and not in the hands of some unknown bureaucrat or so called > security people sitting in a dark room. > > Also, I see nothing wrong with Bhibhusan approach of generating > awareness and informing Parents of a software that they can use to stop > their children from visiting unwanted sites, either knowingly or > unknowingly. > > Since Shankar quoted the CRC, let me cite the the preamble 'Bearing in > mind that, as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, > "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs > special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, > before as well as after birth". > > Full text here. > http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm > > thanks > -gaurab > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
