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Censoring A la Carte©
Internet Censorship Methods and
Effects
nfortunately, it is not likely that you have made it to this page if you're running any of
the censorship software federally mandated in libraries and schools and marketed to
parents who wish to prevent their children from having free access (peacefire.org/censorware/) to the
web. In fact, if you do manage find your way here while using one of these programs, please
let us know. [Edited '04-Dec-15th to add:] Since issuing this challenge in late 2002 we have
received only one message that someone was able to get through using such a program. That
was a filter called 8e6, which seems to be unique among filtering software in making a
strong effort to not over filter. [end edit]
Overscreening
Self Rating
In a large site such as this one, there is surely something to offend just
about everyone. The information available here should be of great
personal interest to most children. However, no effort has been put
forth to sanitize the presentation with some generic child in mind.
Alarmingly, some might argue that this site is therefore intentionally
contributing to juvenile delinquency and
would be subject to large fines and civil
i penalties under the draconian Child Online
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Protection Act (censorware.org/ - bad link). In that case, having indicated a self
rating as child friendly could be interpreted as further
(safesurf.com/ssfaq.htm#rating) incrimination.
Unschielded Erotica
On the other hand, as parents we need to have confidence in the sites
where we allow our children to roam. In that light, A la Carte promises
to never participate in the spreading of unshielded erotica (except this)
or of cruelty or even harsh discipline for people or other animals, nor
knowingly link to sites that do (except this). In fact, the A la Carte
Copyright Policy even specifies that such sites are unwelcome to link to
A la Carte, hopefully providing some measure of legal protection
against so-called 'backlinks.'
Personal Responsibility
We (Dancr & David) display the logo of the Green Ribbon Campaign
with some hesitation. While we've
often taken great care to consider
the feelings of some who may
disagree, we're quite sure that
almost everyone could find
something here to offend them. Of
course, any time one chooses to talk about sex, religion, and politics
they're treading on thin ice. Members of the medical establishment
might be particularly insulted by our health pages. The world's top two
teacher associations are certainly insulted by our learning page. Even
the founders of the Green Ribbon Campaign would likely find our
religion page to be vulgar, profane and insulting. Never-the-less, we
appreciate the spirit in which that campaign is
presented.
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