Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many other filtering systems work differently from AOL's, dumbly applying a list of forbidden words against the content of any site the user tries to see or simply blocking access to a list of sites ruled obscene or otherwise objectionable. In both instances, the filter will almost always work like a blunt instrument. If you tried to get to the home page of the Almaden Valley (California) Youth Soccer League and you had a filter, you would be blocked because the filter, tuned to look out for pedophiles, might have the phrase "Boys Under 12" on the proscribed list...
Many parents don't realize that a simple click on the "history" tab on a browser tool bar will produce a list of links to every site the computer has visited recently. It's true that any canny 13-year-old knows how to delete potentially incriminating evidence from the history files. Already, though, there are several programs available, such as Cyber Snoop (at least the manufacturer doesn't euphemize), that create a tamperproof database--a trail of bread crumbs, as it were--so parents can examine every Web address the computer has visited since the last time Dad checked...
...COMMERCE GUNS, BEER, DRUGS, GAMBLING--it's all available online if you know where to look or how to search for it. Credit-card requirements will keep most kids out of trouble (unless they carry their own VISA or American Express card). And more than one site offers free bingo and card games (with large cash prizes) to all comers...
...give your children ACCESS TO CREDIT CARDS, and check your statements for bills from Adult Check or customerservice@ntcor.com Both are common porn-site clearance agencies...
...seen the violent movie The Matrix four times in the month that it has been out. Yet she is cautious about the digital world, calling it "a culture that they just slip into." She says, "It's not so much the Internet or the games but which Internet site and which games...