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Prince William, Virginia schools, ACLU tussle over gay Internet access

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Dan82, Apr 14, 2011.

  1. Dan82

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...internet-access/2011/04/12/AF2tuIVD_blog.html

     
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    Tricky issue. I think it's reasonable to try and filter porn, and it can be complicated to filter out gay porn sites without also filtering gay sites like EC because many of the same keywords (though in a different context) will still be present.

    It should be a solvable problem. The question is whether Prince William County is actively trying to keep LGBT resources out of their network, or whether they're just using a standard web filter that isn't very sophisticated. I seem to remember PWC was at least somewhat liberal back when I lived in northern VA, so I'd hope it's the latter rather than the former.
     
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    over here the filters in school ban the universities of sussex and middlessex because the contain the word sex. Just saying, they tend to be very one colour suits all