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IP: RE: Size of the web, and attempts to filter it
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:43:53 -0500
From: "Shaya Potter" <spotter () yucs org> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: RE: Size of the web, and attempts to filter it Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:42:24 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal This is missing the point that the effective censoring programs aren't going to say "we will allow the entire internet, but disallow specific sites", but are going to essentially disallow the entire internet, and then allow selective sites. Most users/families/companies don't need access to every possible site on the net, and it's much easier for them to deal with requests to add sites to the allowed list, than to try to keep up with sites to add to a disallowed list. This isn't such an original idea, as many firewalls can act in this way (disallow everything, but what I explicitly allow), and I have seen ads for ISPs only targeted at families that specificaly do the above. Shaya Potter
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