filtering the internet
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elessaLawmaker calls for no-cost, porn-free, wireless 'Net access
ars technica, By Ryan Paul | Published: April 21, 2008 - 10:25AM CT
The Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, proposed by Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), would instruct the FCC to auction off the 2155-2175MHz band of spectrum. The winner would have to use the spectrum to create a nationwide wireless Internet service that is available to the public at no cost, automatically blocks access to pornographic content, and is fully open to third-party device manufacturers.
nice in theory, poor in practice.
case in point. i am involved in the administration of the main coding source site for a text-based browser game. recently one of the free webhosts that many newbie game admins host their game on has begun filtering.
the result of filtering on the word "SEX" has caused a myriad of errors in the running of the game due to it blocking lines of code which contain the string "$xml = new parseXml;"
doh!
a request to whitelist this occurrence was sent to the host. the response was one of utter cluelessness.
yeah... so let's block porn...
ars technica, By Ryan Paul | Published: April 21, 2008 - 10:25AM CT
The Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, proposed by Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), would instruct the FCC to auction off the 2155-2175MHz band of spectrum. The winner would have to use the spectrum to create a nationwide wireless Internet service that is available to the public at no cost, automatically blocks access to pornographic content, and is fully open to third-party device manufacturers.
nice in theory, poor in practice.
case in point. i am involved in the administration of the main coding source site for a text-based browser game. recently one of the free webhosts that many newbie game admins host their game on has begun filtering.
the result of filtering on the word "SEX" has caused a myriad of errors in the running of the game due to it blocking lines of code which contain the string "$xml = new parseXml;"
doh!
a request to whitelist this occurrence was sent to the host. the response was one of utter cluelessness.
yeah... so let's block porn...
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