[Swansea Hackspace] Home Internet Filter

[Richard Morgan]

Very insightful Neil, thanks for the response.

I'm less keen on the BT Parental Controls for the exact reasons you
highlight, and would prefer something more open source and configurable in
terms of what is filtered out if possible.

I do have a couple of Raspberry Pi computers I could use for this so a
solution that runs on RPi would be nice but not a must have.

Thanks again,

Richard

On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 at 15:00, Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 26/03/16 17:41, Richard Morgan wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> What do you use for filtering your home internet for children?
>
> There is BT Parental Controls if you're using infinity broadband but I've
> also seen examples using Raspberry Pi as a proxy running Squid/Squidguard.
>
>
> You've not had a lot of answers, but can I suggest investigating the
> problem a bit further.
> What does BT filter? Researching it shows that it i domain based. That at
> least is better than local councils who in the web filtering for
> librariesand their email systems use a very stupid word based system.
>
> However, BT's filter is made by another company and therein may lie a
> problem. A lot of these things are driven by American bigots who want their
> children protected from all sorts of harmless things, Evolution is one of
> those so just about any decent and harmless biology site is going to be off
> limits. If you have any doubts about this check any American forum. I am
> currently receiving postings from young earth creationists, racists,
> homophobes and genocide deniers.
>
> Those of you who have been members of the local Linux User Group will
> remember Rhys Sage AKA "Secret Agent Sage" who went off to America and
> managed to
> find one of these rednecks willing to marry him. He caused an uproar on
> that list by posting bigoted stuff which is only too common in the USA.
> So before getting any filtering system I would actually find if it is
> tailored to British values not the those of the American Kristian Koalition
> Klan.
>
> Then there is the problem that any intelligent child can bypass the
> filters anyway with the likes of Tor etc.
>
>
> Neil
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution that's configurable and manageable remotely
> please? Thanks.
>
> Happy Easter all,
>
> Richard
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
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