Lori
Van Order – SLM521 – Summer 2003
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Internet
filtering can ensure supervision over your child when he accesses the Internet,
even when you are not there.
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Browsers
made for kids through Internet filtering don’t display inappropriate
words or images on its pages.
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Search
engines for kids help to not only keep the search safer, but it helps to make
it easier for kids to search and find sites that are interesting and
entertaining to them.
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It
saves time, because the kids don’t have to weed through all the unwanted
material they would have in a regular search engine.
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Internet
filtering can also block outgoing content, so that kids can’t send
personal information out without knowing it.
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Key
word filtering can limit access to sites containing potentially inappropriate
words.
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Key
word filtering also helps to prevent emails with inappropriate words in the
subject from being sent through.
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Internet
filtering can interfere with searches for appropriate sites.
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It
may be hard to keep the filtered list updated, as hundreds of new pages are created every day that
need to be filtered.
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Internet
filtering doesn’t always help to filter language or material in chat
areas.
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Some
programs won’t allow parents to override the filtering if they feel a
certain site would be okay for their child to visit.
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Internet
filtering can also lead to the parents taking on a false sense of
security—and it leaves the child unprepared to deal with exposure to
inappropriate content when it does occur.
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Increasing
Internet filtering in the home could eventually lead to Government censorship
of the Internet.