Adult content (at-ubuntu-001)

[Eric S. Johansson]

Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> As i told you earlier, opinion on this kind of stuff varies from
> person to person.
... attribution confusion.  ;-)
> However something like paedophile sites should ALWAYS be banned.
...
> Ubuntu can supply filters for something the community UNANIMOUSLY
> votes against, like paedophilia, terrorist propoganda sites, etc.

solve this conundrum if you can.  If a filter labels a site as 
"undesirable" and prevents people from viewing, what is to stop 
ideologically motivated people from mislabeling sites.  For example, 
labeling a site describing issues with abortion as a terrorist 
propaganda site?

for example, in United States, we have religious fanatics deliberately 
lying to vulnerable teenagers on issues of sexual safety.  Specifically 
describing condoms as unsafe or even cancer-causing.  Misrepresenting 
statistics on birth control efficacy.  The list goes on for quite a 
distance.

They have been in the past and I suspect currently are active in the 
filter community trying to push their ideological stance into filter rules.

how do we prevent them from happening here?  (The real world has not 
been very successful at this)

> 
> 
>> but never ever forget the need to teach children as they make the 
>> transition to adulthood how to differentiate about what's
>> appropriate behavior and what is not.
> 
> 
> I would like to add that "appropriate behaviour" also  differs from 
> counrty to country and society to society. In some societies i have
> seen father having beer with his teenage son, in India that is
> impossible (again just an example)

would that not be based on religious foundations?  This is actually a 
great example of the above conundrum.  Would it be possible for cultural 
  groups to create their own filters and allow for millions of potential 
groups because I know that goats.cx is really not my style but almost 
anything else goes.

In reality, over the past 15 years, I can count on one hand the number 
of times I've gone to an inappropriate site that I did not intend to go 
to and still have room for the next 15 years.  How other people stumble 
across all these horrible sites is beyond my imagination.  I think they 
were really looking for it and just are trying to find a scapegoat.

"those nasty rotten search engines are led me to yet another porno site, 
um yea, it's all the fault of those search engines."

---eric