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Politics & Law

UK porn filters block sex education websites

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers

For those that keep insisting “filters are smarter than they used to be…” Among the sites TalkTalk blocked as “pornographic” was BishUK.com, an award-winning British sex…

Tech

Tuesday Tech Tip: Use Google as a Proxy Server to Bypass Filters & Paywalls

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

If you have trouble accessing a web page either because the website is blocked at your workplace, or because that page happens to be behind…

Libraries

New York Public Library Blocks The Pirate Bay

Posted on March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Michael Sauers

NYPL uses filters. Fine. I’m not going to have that argument. But it looks like they block “Peer-to-Peer File Sharing” as a category. Why? A…

Libraries

Federal judge: Public library cannot censor pagan websites

Posted on March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Funny how the library lost this case… Salem Library Director Glenda Wofford told Hunter the websites could only be unblocked if [the patron] had a…

Internet

Dealing with access problems in schools

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Michael Sauers

The Free Technology for Teachers blog has a great story about filters blocking social services at schools and recommendations for what to do about it.…

Further proof that filters don’t work

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Last week I was at the offices of Lincoln Public Schools to present on LibraryThing. During some free time in the lab I wanted to…

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