Person1- "Aw man, where did you get that? That's so cool." Person2- "Oh yeah? I have a windows xp PRO." Person1- "Oh yeah, man, macs are totally awesome!" Person1- "Oh my god, dude, I hate apple computers so much." Therefore, nobody is smart enough to get around the blockers (except for a select few of my friends.) Here's a couple conversations I heard: I know that at my school, we have a LOT of computer-retarded kids. You can pour as many resources as you want into it and it will fail worse than the filters. don't ask them to "teach" behaviors that parents and society should be actively modeling for children every day. Teachers can barely pound the already required curricula into most kids. So that when kids do download porn or visit some objectionable site (and they WILL) they can't claim it was "accidental" when their parents come and complain to the school. but here the point of the filters is that the kids have to make some minimal effort to get around them. Maybe things are different where you are. Furthermore, exactly how interested were the kids in hearing anything an adult had to say? When was the last time you volunteered in a public middle-school classroom or library? How much one on one time did you or other adults in the room really have for any of the students. Why not use the time and resources spent on these filters and tracking kids' ways around them on teaching critical thinking and good judgment instead We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise - and every little bit helps. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites - especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis. Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. Thank you for reading this Techdirt post.
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