On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:21 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 08:00, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> {{sofixit}}
>> If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them 
>> rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different 
>> solutions, without any politics or drama.
>
>
> The problem there is the insistence of filter proponents (from board
> down) that it *has* to be done on the sites themselves, with any
> post-site solution being considered unsuitable. Why is not clear to me
> either.

Where do you run the filter?  I suppose a sophisticated parent could
set up a firewall and a proxy on his home network, but many families
don't even have a spare computer to act as the firewall, let alone the
technical know-how to run the thing.

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