Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? 646
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from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children dept.
from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I have two kids, 7 and 8. I would love to allow them internet access on a regular basis. The problem is what's out there: I really don't want them to deal with porn ads and such, but making either a blacklist or a whitelist myself would take months. So I figured I would ask you: what free software would you use with preferably prebuilt lists to protect your kids online? What is out there with fairly easy configuration ability (to allow for game servers — they love Minecraft), but secure enough they can't just bypass it using a Google search?"
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Then I had a revelation-- I could just install MY CLEAN PC! [youtube.com] and it was truly the answer to all my
-- aaah, f**k it. Nevermind.
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And yet, here you are.
Re:Teaching kids the ability to discern (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know what you are talking about - I was glued to the TV for my entire childhood, and I turned out just...
OH! Look! A new Apple product announcement!
Can't talk now.