Thursday, April 20, 2006

News flash: kids smarter than web filters

The geeks at Ars Technica posted a good report on web filtering in schools, News flash: kids smarter than web filters
It's bad news for those who rely solely on web filters to keep tabs on what parts of the Internet their children and students, but nothing surprising for the rest of us: kids don't like web filters and have no trouble circumventing them.
Their bottom-line advice:
parents need to keep tabs on what their kids are doing online.
Read the whole article, it's short and on-target.

I hear that SFUSD is filtering. As you might expect, they block MySpace. But I was pretty dismayed to hear they also block Wikipedia! What's up with that?

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