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In reply to the discussion: Pornography is more popular in red states. Why is that? [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)I've been consistently saying that the software does not work. It can not work.
It relies on a blacklist. Which will always be out of date - brand-new porn sites show up every day and the software maker doesn't know about them. Also, damn near anyone can set up a proxy to relay content from blocked sites. So even a theoretically perfect blacklist can't get the job done.
The only way to effectively block porn on the Internet is a whitelist, and maintaining a whitelist of the entire Internet is not possible - there's too much on the Internet. That's why there keeps being mini-scandals over what schools and libraries declare porn (ie. breast cancer information).
You can do it for a kid when they're young enough to only go to disney.com and the like. But as soon as they hit double-digits isn't not going to work - there's too much they should be able to see.
Not to mention government-mandated whitelist you are installing on every computer is a Republican's wet dream for censorship.