Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 of these blunt instruments, found that the filter used by the federal court systems in 22 states blocks a Jewish teen site, a Liza Minnelli fan page and a grocery...
...serviceable. For instance, she advises that if you must buy a filter, pick one like Cyberpatrol, which allows you to disable "keyword blocking"--a way of getting around the breasts problem that afflicted the grocer. That way, your filter will block access only to a preselected list of offensive sites, rather than banning all the sites containing a suspect word. Of course, what constitutes an offensive site is anyone's guess: Net Nanny is the only filter that actually discloses its list of banned sites...
DEEP THOUGHTS With the President in China, Al Gore announced that a U.S. missile was fired at an Iraqi antiaircraft site. We asked Fox analyst Dick Morris how this might affect Campaign...
...Friends of the Longfellow House was formedclose to five years ago by Diana Korzenick, whogrew to care deeply about the site whileconducting research there...
Korzenick says the group raises communityawareness of the site through a newsletter andcultural events held on the lawn every Sundaysummer afternoon...