Word: filterers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three young children, and I would no sooner install a software filter on my computer than I would lock up the books in my library. It's not just that I'm rabidly pro-First Amendment; software filters simply don't work. It's a little like trying to collect raindrops in your hat: you'll catch some, but you'll miss most of them. Worse, filters tend to block stuff that they shouldn't block: breast-cancer sites, for instance, and virtually anything having to do with homosexuality. The Censorware Project, which opposes the use by public institutions...
...relation to the P-Funk. Popular for the novel yet useless recessed filter...
...grad student says, "I smokeCarltons because they're light, light as air." Hegoes on to argue that it is easier to quit fromlight cigarettes than Reds. Altshuler has apeculiar reason for enjoying his favorite brand,saying, "I smoke Parliaments because I like tostick my tongue in the recessed filter." Talkabout oral fixation! Other popular brands areCamels and Marlboros. One first-year woman says,"I smoked Winstons regularly, but then I saw an adfor Kamel Red lights, and I bought a pack becauseof the cool box. I liked it so much that I stuckit on my wall after the pack...
These details don't seem to discourage politicians. It doesn't matter if the idea is feasible or not--by supporting it, they appear "pro-education" or "pro-technology." Likewise, those who seek to ban or filter pornographic material from the Internet usually have political support. After all, no one wants their children exposed to obscene material. Those who oppose such legislation are derisively labeled as "anti-family values" or "criminal defenders." By billing the Internet as vital to our very existence, law-makers can do what they want with it. And so long as there is no obvious harm...
...purely for aesthetic reasons and the world of "three-dimensional women," I am not convinced that everyone is adept at distinguishing the media image of women from the real image of women. The tendency to view members of a particular gender as objects in the imagined world can easily filter into the "real world" causing a situation where those objectified by the media are viewed solely as ornamental objects...