Jan. 13th, 2009 08:18 pm
Internet filters in librarys and schools?
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jeffreyabNEW YORK - A task force charged with assessing technologies for protecting children from unwanted contact online has concluded that no single approach is foolproof and that parental oversight is vital.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090113/ap_on_hi_te/tec_internet_safety_1
Interesting article in light of Ontario Bill 128 An Act to protect our children from sexual predators and exposure to electronic forms of sexual material by amending Christopher’s Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000 and other Acts, which requires all schools and public libraries to install filters to protect children on the Internet and to include ALL email and chat services.
Education Act
Every school board is required to ensure that every school of the board has in place technology measures on all of the school’s computers to which a person under the age of 18 years has access. The technology measures must do the following:
1. They must block access on the Internet to any material,including written material, pictures and recordings, that is obscene or sexually explicit or that constitutes child pornography.
2. They must block access to any form of electronic communication, including electronic mail and chat rooms, if the communication could reasonably be expected to ex-pose a person under the age of 18 years to any material,including written material, pictures and recordings, that is obscene or sexually explicit or that constitutes child pornography.
3. They must block access to any site on the Internet or to any form of electronic communication, including electronic mail and chat rooms, if the school has not authorized users of the computers to access the site or the communication or if the site or the communication could reasonably be expected to contain material that includes personal information about a person under the age of 18years.
A school is required to have a policy on who are authorized to use its computers to which a person under the age of 18 years has access and to monitor the use that persons under the age of 18 years make of those computers.
The Bill amends the Public Libraries Act to make amendments that are similar to those that the Bill makes to the Education Act, except that the duties of a school board are those a board with respect to every library under its jurisdiction and the duties of a school are those of a public library.
Realistically can technology actually do that?
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090113/ap_on_hi_te/tec_internet_safety_1
Interesting article in light of Ontario Bill 128 An Act to protect our children from sexual predators and exposure to electronic forms of sexual material by amending Christopher’s Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000 and other Acts, which requires all schools and public libraries to install filters to protect children on the Internet and to include ALL email and chat services.
Education Act
Every school board is required to ensure that every school of the board has in place technology measures on all of the school’s computers to which a person under the age of 18 years has access. The technology measures must do the following:
1. They must block access on the Internet to any material,including written material, pictures and recordings, that is obscene or sexually explicit or that constitutes child pornography.
2. They must block access to any form of electronic communication, including electronic mail and chat rooms, if the communication could reasonably be expected to ex-pose a person under the age of 18 years to any material,including written material, pictures and recordings, that is obscene or sexually explicit or that constitutes child pornography.
3. They must block access to any site on the Internet or to any form of electronic communication, including electronic mail and chat rooms, if the school has not authorized users of the computers to access the site or the communication or if the site or the communication could reasonably be expected to contain material that includes personal information about a person under the age of 18years.
A school is required to have a policy on who are authorized to use its computers to which a person under the age of 18 years has access and to monitor the use that persons under the age of 18 years make of those computers.
The Bill amends the Public Libraries Act to make amendments that are similar to those that the Bill makes to the Education Act, except that the duties of a school board are those a board with respect to every library under its jurisdiction and the duties of a school are those of a public library.
Realistically can technology actually do that?
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You can't insulate kids completely.. its a dangerous world.
But you can teach the kids, raise them right. You teach them to recognize trouble when they come across it and what to do.
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But I don't have any first hand experience with this kind of stuff since my college library doesn't do any filtering/blocking except asking people seen viewing porn to stop or at least move to one of our computers with "hidden" tabletop monitor cases.
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Rule 3 doesn't even let kids talk to other kids.
And they're asking for technology to determine something that courts don't agree on.
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Less briefly, yes, parental oversight, or rather involvement, is vital. You can watch them like a hawk, or educate them so they are aware of what happens and what to do about it, or gouge their eyes out for fear one day they might see something that offends you.