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Regarding delay implementing SafeDNS choices, if I cannot even know if [ X ] or [ √ ] mean [ Blocked ] or [ Not Blocked ], and the screens are different for the local program versus the web front end, then the inordinate delay to have them effectively toggle only compounds the waste of time guessing what is going on.
Regarding Google classifying search results, that’s neither their promise nor their job, they simply respond with what others clicked on when asking your same search terms.
How is SafeDNS supposed to even find porn sites unless they visit them, and then Google has a record of that site being visited at least one more time, upping it’s popularity and ranking in web search results.
Perhaps writing to Google and asking them to collect MORE data on everyone ( yeah, that’s what we all want ! ) to classify who is searching, so that we can self-identify as [ I don’t like porn ] and then Google might be able to say “other people who don’t like porn clicked on these responses most, considering your search term”, and then the church that uses porn as a front door to try to convert porn viewers ( yup, I wrote to them, and they said they do it because it works ! ) will have access to our children much easier.
In other words, we may be expecting someone else to do the work of raising our children for us … and we somehow expect an imperfect, evolving, cat-and-mouse commercial algorithm to raise our kids, no less!
I’m not saying it’s easy, nor am I saying anyone is irresponsible, and I do appreciate that we all can become frustrated and perhaps at risk of becoming impatient, considering the challenge of wanting to raise connected and intelligent and savvy kids who can thrive in a competitive marketplace, yet who are at the mercy of untoward influences.
I hope everyone notices the arduous efforts we are all employing trying to get these chaperoning programs to work for us, when the same effort would probably be better put to chaperoning our kids, engaging with them, sharing their shock and curiosity when encountering crapola on the web, and not just abusive porn and the presidents who pay off porn stars to keep quiet when people are voting, but outright lies and propaganda from people in power and their cronies and corporations, religious indoctrination not just from nefarious cults, but from seemingly good people who just happen to be of a different religion from our preferences for influencing our family, as our kids are exploring ways to understand it, put it in perspective, and so, we definitely need to have more off-web experiences with our children that informs and contextualizes, that is, if the web is engaging our kids, then we have to engage our kids even more.
In other words, go ahead and engage all of these time and money eaters, but remember to spend even more time and maybe money on other ways to make sure our kids are loving, respectful, aware, and protective of themselves, of each other, and of everyone’s value,
… and not just with porn filters,
… but especially empowered with the skill to deconstruct propaganda.
Good luck, and thanks for sharing.
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