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Why not use dedicated web site blocker software?

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Why not use dedicated web site blocker software?

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• Try Googling for ”Bypass x” where x is your proposed site blocking software. Your kids – or one of their friends – will do the same search! • If they can’t bypass it, they will go to a friend’s house to look, and you’ll never know what they’ve been viewing! • Blockers / filters often get it wrong. According to ‘New Scientist’ magazine, Richard Dawkins’ web site (www.richarddawkins.net) was banned by one well known blocker/filter as being an ‘occult’ site, and classified by another as being ‘religious’! • My Personal Opinion:- Better to know what they are looking at, and discuss it with them, than drive them to use other peoples’ PCs that are out of your control! What about content filtering? Content filtering is never 100% effective. It misses text displayed as images, and either misses deliberately misspelled words or is over-zealous about it, blocking perfectly innocent pages. Plenty of sites advise how to bypass software of this type. For younger children, filters and blockers do

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