[clug] OT: Protesting the proposed clean feed?

[Michael Carter]

Listing websites may not be particularly useful either since website 
names often don't really give you
a useful idea as to what the actual content of the site is.

Michael

> This is valid, and I did fail to point out that I certainly wouldn't go so
> far as to list the visited sites anywhere. That just ruins trust, and makes
> them more likely to do it somewhere else. As parents, we should be
> educating, not dictating (incidentally, IMHO this goes for government too).
> Simply make it clear that you do know what they're looking that. Not so much
> "you'd better not go surfing porn, I'm watching you" as "hey, I noticed you
> were checking out [website], what's that all about?" Of course, you never
> ask a question you don't already know the answer to ;) It only needs to be a
> subtle nudge that you know what they're doing. Having the computer in a
> communal area (or having the door open) is much more important than veiled
> threats or a Big Brother type attitude.
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