Re:XFiltersoftware

[Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <listen _at__ fx3.de>]

Hallo Liste,

Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 1:18:35 PM, Matthias.Scholz _at__ kempten.de wrote:

> In Kempten schotten wir unsere OPAC-Arbeitsplätze mit SiteKiosk ab.
> Das klappt problemlos.
> Ob das auch für Internetarbeitsplätze gilt kann von hier nicht
> beantwortet werden.

Da ich durch meine Arbeit bei odem.org vorbelastet bin, wollte ich
mich eigentlich zurückhalten. Ohne eine Grundsatzdebatte [1] starten
zu wollen, möchte ich kurz auf einen Artikel hinweisen, der vor knapp
4 Wochen in der New York Times erschienen ist:

Quelle: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/technology/11FILT.html
Datum:  14.12.2002
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Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites, Study Finds 
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information as part of
their "wired generation" birthright are blocked from many useful sites
by antipornography filters that federal law requires in school and
library computers, a new study has found.

The filtering programs tend to block references to sex and sex-related
terms, like "safe sex," "condoms," "abortion," "jock itch," "gay" and
"lesbian." Although the software can be adjusted to allow access to
most health-related Web sites, many schools and libraries ratchet up
the software's barriers to highest settings, the report said.

"A little bit of filtering is O.K., but more isn't necessarily
better," said Vicky Rideout, vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser
Family Foundation, which produced the report, to be published today in
The Journal of the American Medical Association. "If they are set too
high, they can be a serious obstacle to health information."

The researchers found that filters set at the least restrictive level
blocked an average of 1.4 percent of health sites; at the most
restrictive level, filters blocked nearly 25 percent of health sites.
The amount of pornography blocked, however, was fairly consistent: 87
percent at the least restrictive level, 91 percent at the most
restrictive. [..]

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Den Volltext gibt es nach kostenfreier Registrierung im Archiv der NY
Times. Weiteres zum Thema Filter/Rating auch in unserer Materialsamm-
lung zu den Internetsperrversuchen in NRW:
 http://www.david-gegen-goliath.org/Materialsammlung.pdf (470kb, PDF)


MfG
 Olaf

[1] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/pmz-14.06.02-001/
    ist sicher bekannt.