On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:42:41AM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
| Adam Goucher wrote:
| > <rant> filtering is censorship! censorship is bad! </rant> though, should
| > you want to play big brother, look at squid. i believe it has some access
| > lists you can apply to it. http://squid.nlanr.net
| There are probably more good than bad reasons. Like cutting off porn
| sites from your kids? Especially if your kids are *very* young?
Indeed. This was why I, for one, vehemently opposed the Oz Govt's
censorship efforts. As it's turned out, while the legislation came in
flawed, at least the ISP-level stuff was reduced to requiring ISPs to
make censorship software available to users (which seems reasonable to
me) as opposed to forcing them to censor everyone's feed (which is
incredibly intrusive).
| My son is soon to be three years old. He's got his own PC, where he
| primarily plays pinball. (No pinball for Linux available yet?)
Kath's spent MANY hours playing xboing. It's not quite pinball, but...
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