Porn-free ADSL

SharkBait said:
Downloading music and videos is illigal... :D
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No - only copyrighted ones! ;)

I think this is a good idea, this is a choice for parents and it is their right to exercise this choice.

People like me probably wont be making use of this soon though. :D
 
Point taken :)

Seriously though, it's a drag when I have to do updates to my PC's and download lots of Linux distro's :( You can never have enough cap for that
 
you can say big brother is watching :)


"something which should be addressed by ISPs."
how about thats a stuipd comments.. it should be address by the parents. not the bloody ISP.
THEY NOT THERE TO PLAY MOM&DAD FOR YOUR KIDS on the NET!!!!...>>>
 
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If I had kids this would be my ISP. Some of the stuff Ive seen on the makes ure hair stand on end. Its still the parents job to police the children. No 1 else can do their job for them.
 
@ Timgaul

The web is older than ten years especially the US sites.

Be careful you don't get us "early adopters" started talking about the old days, we may never stop.
 
Decent idea. Doomed to fail on the implementation side.

Google can't even effectively filter porn out of there image searches...what makes an small-ish ISP think they can?
 
Drunkard #1 said:
@ Timgaul

The web is older than ten years especially the US sites.

Be careful you don't get us "early adopters" started talking about the old days, we may never stop.
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"as we know it" "barely 10 years"

Yes, I've used Unix servers. Yes, I browsed using text-based Lynx. Yes, I know the Internet (or ARPAnet) started in the 60s/70s (would you like a full account, I've been taught this stuff many times?). However, I refer you to my comments above.

We were discussing the fact that an 11 year old would be using the Internet (or rather Web) in the mid-90s. As such I find it improbable that a child would have access via a 9600baud modem or such and be navigating the WWW with the ease you make it out to be :/
 
I got my first modem in '95 (28 800, not 9600) and within a year the number of bbs on Roblist had more than halved. Why? The web had landed with such a splash that bbs lost most of their customers, save those using them for SLIP access to the web. I was 14 at the time. I think Icyrus is right: '93/'94.

Those old bulletin boards had some cool porn, and all under 20kB. ;-)
 
Mike Smit said:
This is good news. I have 3 kids each with their own PC's and trying to restrict "bad" content is a constant battle.

I hope other ISP's follow on with this...
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As long as it's only an option and not the only service.
Then again, surely it's just easier to install NetNanny or something similar,
I wouldn't want my ISP flagging everything as porn.

If you don't mind a censored internet experience, this one is for you.
 
If the kiddies really want to circumvent this then they could just get another account from their friends or something and use it while parents are asleep.
 
Mike Smit said:
No - I don't rely on it. It is just another tool in the arsenal to assist with filtering. I do believe ISP's should assist with this kind of thing. I will still use my in-house tools such as filtering on my router and software installed on the kids machines.
When they are more savvy, they will find a way around it. Just like you can put as much security on your house, and if they want in, they will still find a way around it. You just gotta make it as hard as you can.

This is not to say it should be blocked outright. Just as a package you can select with your line. For the guy that wants a straight line with no filtering should simply be choice.
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You kids could also borrow your credit card and buy a spare
ADSL account or use their friends' accounts to download
porn. I think the issue is one of education. Porn is there and kids
should be taught about it, and you should be permitted to protect
them from it by installing safeguards but won't stop them going
elsewhere for their broadband experience if you don't get into their
heads and teach them WHY porn is bad - its best to use good, genuine
logic here. And is it really so bad for a 16year old boy to see a naked beautiful
20 odd year old woman in a JPEG? There is also hardcore porn and
even illegal porn out there, but simple nudity? Is that so bad?
 
Nod said:
Guy I know give his kids internet with no limits. Crazy? Uncaring? No. He told them that he will be analyzing the proxy logs every week, and if he catches them going to dubious places, internet will be disabled for a month for the first offense, and will double for every offense after that.
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Well sometimes porn is worth it ;)
 
Drunkard #1 said:
I got my first modem in '95 (28 800, not 9600) and within a year the number of bbs on Roblist had more than halved. Why? The web had landed with such a splash that bbs lost most of their customers, save those using them for SLIP access to the web. I was 14 at the time. I think Icyrus is right: '93/'94.

Those old bulletin boards had some cool porn, and all under 20kB. ;-)
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So you couldn't have accessed the web when you were 11 then?
 
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