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...Brooklyn apartment. O'Shea calls it "a remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other websites so they can adapt it for their own users. "Our focus was always on profitability," says O'Shea...
...Election Day, VNS exit poll data began to filter in to the news organizations...
Questions remain about voting "irregularities" in Florida, and how absentee ballots sent from overseas will affect the election. It could take up to 10 days for those ballots to filter in. In 1996, the 2,300 overseas ballots went mainly to the Republican nominee...
...schools, peer pressure and sexually explicit media are all conspiring to foreshorten childhood, with consequences that are still not well understood. "One of the big shocks during the whole Clinton debacle," says William Damon, director of Stanford's Center on Adolescence, "was that people were trying to filter out phrases like 'oral sex,' when in fact there were no eight-year-olds who didn't already know what that was." One result of these influences is that girls are wearing highly sexualized, adult clothing in middle school and below--even when they don't have adult bodies...
Linn said that these regulations are needed because children cannot filter, censor or effectively judge commercials...