Porn-free ADSL

Choice...

I'd like to think I would be given the choice to have an ISP that does filtering, if not a complete solution to the porn thing, it would be a start.

This company has the right to provide this service and parents and others have the right to buy it if they want, or not to. Why complain about something if it clearly is not aimed at you? All you have to do, and this is the tricky bit, is DON'T GET IT!

I work in a school environment as an IT professional, and we don't run much filtering. We just block the sites that eat our bandwidth which is meant for educational purposes (we are above those rules though:D ) The problem comes in when you,and I kid you not, have an 11 year old boy look at gay porn. And worst is when those exact boy keeps on bugging you whenever he is around. At least he got told off by people who are meant to tell him off.

So all they guys here, before you complain about the porn filters, ask yourself, would you like your 11 year old sons to stare at gay porn sites? It is their choice after all...
 
sigh, there are still people out there who believe in a 100% anti-something
solution that actually is 100% working without any holes in it... :rolleyes:

i would like to know if they can do a raw packet comparison to see wtf it is and it is not. This also would have me thinking on which level are they doing the filtering; will for example my www.<banksite>.co.za be logged and then a-oked ?

Nice way to track where and what people are doing - lots of cash making probability here, i mean just sell their habits to those who are interested ;)

-theres always a way around a man made filter/security/wall, dcc comes to mind, just quick remote desktop to my friend and surf the porno from his/her pc or rasspppoe and those arn't even complex methods of bypassing...
 
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or you could just use opendns.org which is free and moderated by the users to stop false positives etc.
 
So many ways...

There will always be a few ways past. But hey, close the main door, let them try the window. Secure the window, and Santa might find a little surprise in the chimney comes Christmas...lol!
 
Reminds me of the Australian gov who spent millions developing a system to protect the youth. It was bypassed within minutes of it going live iirc.
 
The perfect quote here is from 'Scrubs'

If they were to take all the porn off the internet then there would only be one website left: www.bringbacktheporn.com
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:D
 
Leno said:
or you could just use opendns.org which is free and moderated by the users to stop false positives etc.
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Dang, you beat me to it...

Let's also mention that OpenDNS can be set to filter out unwanted content
 
IMHO I don't think it should be the place of an ISP to filter out anything. There are plenty of filtering tools available to parents. Most antivirus packages come with adult-content filtering. There are also software packages built specifically for that purpose.

But what concerns me even more is the filtering of "malicious" content. What exactly does taht mean? That seems like a rather vague description. Who decides just what qualifies as malicious content?

Anyway, as they say on Avenue Q, "The internet is for porn. The internet is for porn. Grab your d**k and double-click for porn, porn porn."
 
just surprised by the number of ppl that are so anti something that they wouldnt use. the reality is that someone finds it useful, and since u dont see the need for the service, why shoot it down? :confused:
 
ike said:
just surprised by the number of ppl that are so anti something that they wouldnt use. the reality is that someone finds it useful, and since u dont see the need for the service, why shoot it down? :confused:
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Some people just don't believe filtering/censorship should be done at the ISP level, which isn't unreasonable.
 
Peh if it wasn't for porn I wouldn't be nearly as skilled as I am today...comeon dad won't teach u about wheelbarrow and praying mantis ;)
 
is this thread linked to the no-nudity bachelors party? cause they both pretty pointless ideas...
 
Surfer_Rosa said:
Having one service out of the ?200? that are available that offers a "porn free experience" (or at least tries) hardly requires the invoking of freedom of expression.
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Exactly. This is not being forced upon their customers. Its being offered at a rate slightly HIGHER than less-filtered internet (funny, here we will see people paying more for less :) ). It is opt-in, and clearly intended as a service for use in schools, public libraries, public access points such as those in Cape Town, and of course also for parents who can't provide 24/7 parental guidence because they're too busy working in order to pay for the porn-free internet. I don't think it "sets a precedent".
 
This product will have some uses and caters for a niche market. No need for the mainstream internet users to get on a soap box over something that doesn't affect them;).

crudler said:
www.hidemyass.com
why should kiddies go without!
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I have tested on the office Smoothwall (with URL filter installed) and it does allow access to blocked sites. Luckily the users on the office network have probably not even heard of a proxy, let alone know how to use one:p.
 
This is crazy talk.
Censorship at its best.
Definately not a true reflection of the real world.
Back in the day finding a porn mag answered all of the burning questions we were to embarassed to ask our parents.
Whats teabagging?LOL LOL LOL!
 
demon angel said:
This is crazy talk.
Censorship at its best.
Definately not a true reflection of the real world.
Back in the day finding a porn mag answered all of the burning questions we were to embarassed to ask our parents.
Whats teabagging?LOL LOL LOL!
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Yeah, what is teabagging? Can you eat it? :D
 
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