[unisog] Content Monitoring and/or Filtering

[Cal Frye]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> Ian Lazerwitz wrote:
>>>> Just curious if anyone out there is doing any form of web content
>>>> monitoring or filtering at their universities.
> 
> My guess is that it can also depend on what kind of audience and where
> money paying for the computers/network comes from. A private institution
> might not have to deal with any Federal or State rules.. but a US public
> institution could fall under CIPA if it if a case could be made that it
> was open to the public and that minor's were able to use it.

At a previous employer we were using a commercial product to keep our
students from viewing bad content from the Internet. It was going to
become nearly a full-time job sorting out the unknown sites (unknown to
the software vendor, that is) into benign and blocked categories. I
don't think this is an install-it-and-forget-it sort of application, so
beware! Get that funding in place up front for the extra admin time
you're going to need

And I quickly learned to browse those unknown sites with an 80x80 pixel
browser window -- some of that stuff I didn't need to see myself....

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