[__rkaup__]

Unfortunately, that repressive regime I live in is my mum's house.

[burgerbrain]

You should get a VPN/shell host somewhere then... or better yet, tell your mom to knock it off.

[MichaelApproved]

"tell your mom to knock it off."

There could be young children who have access to that computer or that network.

[burgerbrain]

In my years of experience:

1) Filters never block shit. 2) You don't "accidentally" find porn anyway.

But god forbid they hypothetically see a breast.

[SoftwareMaven]

#2 is patently false and the biggest reason I don't try to train people not to use Google as their URL bar. It is not cool when a tween kid tries to visit the Poly Pocket web site and finds something very different.

#1 is partially true. It won't block somebody trying to get around it, but it will prevent #2 from happening.

And a breast is the least of concerns with some of the trash parked on misspelled domains.

[burgerbrain]

"It is not cool when"

Seriously now, what is the worst case scenario? This is a fabricated concern.

[liber8er]

Most definitely. My 8-year old girl is going to have to learn about fisting and BDSM at some point. Preventing that would just make me crazy and over-protective.

[SoftwareMaven]

I don't even know how to respond. It is not a fabricated concern because it happened to my kids' babysitter in my house.

Having experience with what happens when a kid goes down a pornography rabbit hole, the worst that can happen is a screwed up life. Will seeing porn guarantee a screwed up kid? Of course not. Does porn have the ability to screw a kid up? Yes.

I'll take a few steps to keep my kids and those who come to my house safe so I have the opportunity to provide a foundation so when they come across it, they aren't screwed up by it.

[0x12]

Just imagine they learned about Apple.