Re: websense sucks! :)

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 6/27/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > Well isn't that Internet censorship? Today they won't let kids watch porn on
> > their school computers, tomorrow it'll be illegal to criticize Bush. It's a
> > steep and slippery slope!
>
> That's a public policy issue when you discuss public schools, along with
> parents choice.
>
> On their networks, they can do whatever they want as long as they are not
> regulated otherwise.
>
> I am against it, but hey.. I wouldn't want people to tell me how to use my
> network or what to let those using my network do.
>
> When government/public sector/work-place issues get involved, it's
> naturally more complicated than that...
>
> How is Websense by itself censorship? Is disallowing annonymizers
> censorship? Technically yes. Practically it's security.


Guess thats the last time Larry will forget the ;-) at the end of a joke

:-)

-JP
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