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by superuser2 3612 days ago
K12 schools are increasingly embracing BYOD and BYOD devices are sometimes resistant to this kind of meddling (iPads, Chromebooks).

In the US, they still have a legal obligation to censor the Internet or they lose federal funding.

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Do you know how much funding is at stake nationwide? (It's E-Rate, as I recall.) How credible is it that an organization or wealthy individual or crowdfunding effort could offer a wholesale alternative? In San Francisco, SFPL chose to give up this funding several years ago in order to decline to install censorware.

Edit: a whole lot of money! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Rate#Modernization

Libraries do tend to be bastions of extreme left-wing views on surveillance and censorship, so perhaps on the library side.

School boards, no way. I can't think of an easier way to torpedo a school board career (or indeed a "pillar of the community" parent's status in the neighborhood) than by mentioning that they think children should have easier access to pornography at school.

Libraries do tend to be bastions of extreme left-wing views on surveillance and censorship

By context I can guess what you mean, but by itself it's a very ambiguous statement :)

Eh, I don't think so. Civil Liberties over Family Values and all that.
Call it "Internet Deregulation" and say that you will be able to lower taxes by X percent if you don't have to spend money on expensive internet filter solutions.