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Weblog:   Content Filtered--Parental Control Advised
Subject:   Speaking as a parent...
Date:   2003-09-29 16:23:03
From:   anonymous2
Thinking about what you're saying, and about my own issues as a parent with the Internet, I think you're wrong about O'Reilly's position. I think there is a need for an O'Reilly book that would meld together parental concerns with a hacker ethos. Here's what I would like to see discussed:


* What filters do, and what they don't do.
* What browsers make it possible to disable pop-up ads.
* Virus safety for kids.
* How to disable the AOL instant messaging start-up screen (perhaps by using an open-source alternative)?
* The fact that the US government claims the right to read our email headers without a search warrant. How do we feel about that? Is that a reasonable standard for monitoring our childrens' email? If not, why do we tolerate other people having that standard for us?
* Come to think of it, can't you hack together a version of Mozilla that prefetches material and warns about adult or other bogus sites taking advantage of typos?
* Advocate a very simple anti-pornography federal law: "Any site using meta tags or other labeling to indicate that it is an adult site can only be tried for obscenity in the location where its owners reside or are incoporated, at their choosing"


-- yudel @ use.perl.org