IP: RE: Size of the web, and attempts to filter it

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> 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
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> 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.
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> 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