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Tyrs WolfDaemon

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3. IIRC many/most of the filter software was created by Religious groups...
Thu Mar 21, 2013, 03:18 AM
Mar 2013

or they sponsored the development of the software. They wouldn't want their little ones learning about all the evil stuff out in the real world like other cultures and religions.

I can see that software, being already created, as an easy choice for libraries to buy and use. The librarians probably use the presets in the filters. That could be for any number of reasons, as an example, not having the tech knowledge to change them. Some of them may know that the settings already filter more than the porn and they think that their patrons shouldn't being searching for things like pagan/neopagan religions anyway, so they gladly leave the filters as they are.


That's my quick take on what is going on and I am probably way over simplifying it.


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