[clug] OT: Protesting the proposed clean feed?

[Robert Edwards]

David Tulloh wrote:
> Robert Edwards wrote:
>> The question I think we should be asking is how can Open Source help
>> solve this problem at the individual subscriber level? What is the best
>> that we can offer to parents/educators etc. who really do want to be
>> able to restrict what their children or other dependents can access on
>> the Internet?
>>
>> What is our "best practice" for home Internet filtering?
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing what others may have done.
> 
> I don't have children and so don't filter my internet, and don't really 
> know what I'm talking about.  It's always struck me though, that logging 
> would be better than filtering.
> 
> Log every url visited and ensure that the kids know that you do it and 
> look at it occasionally.
> 
> If you want to more obvious/fun have a display in a public place of the 
> last few pages viewed.
> 
> 
> It would also allow you to know what they are trying to view and 
> approach them on why it's an issue.
> 
> 
> David

I should have said also that I was using Dans Guardian as a logger as
well as a traffic limiter - blocking off eg. youtube when a particular
(daily) download limit has been reached - just so that the rest of the
Internet users in our house can have some downloads as well before the
ISP limits our bandwidth. As it turns out, I currently have Dans
Guardian disabled (but I still have my squid running).

And all the kid-accessible machines are in the loungeroom (although
several have wireless and can easily be moved into bedrooms etc.).

Any other parents or educators using anything else at home or school?

I think that if we can show the Minister that the problem is really one
that can be fixed at home and so doesn't need to be done at the ISP,
then maybe the push for this will go away...

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.