Any of you know a good free parental filtering software?

[ManSnake]

Looking for a good free parental filtering software. TIA!

 

[OCGuy]

Dont want your kids seeing Mansnake?

 

[Pantoot]

I use K9 web protect and it seems to work well enough.
Its free, so you don't have much to lose.

 

[lxskllr]

OpenDNS

 

[rudeguy]

K9

 

[OCGuy]

Chatroulette

 

[destrekor]

Chatroulette

While this post is obvious in intent...

I wish to say... fuck censoring what your kids have access to.

And I say this knowing full well the shenanigans I got into on the web when I was young. And I did so even when my parents were home, and the computer was in the dining room, which was right next to the living room.

Of course, if the intent is to raise a child completely ignorant of what is out there in the world, subscribes to religious texts with such strong faith that they often respond "well god must want me to do this/this must have meant god didn't want me going through with this."

The big concept: don't censor their usage, merely control the amount of time they are allowed access, period.

There is some research pointing to a correlation between the amount of time youths spend on the internet and their likelihood to develop social problems and what they call "internet addiction." Again, I say this as someone who is quite likely diagnosable "addicted to internet."
And I don't even want to see any of the non-biased research for pornography. I've read quick quips from extremely religion-biased research, and that just doesn't cut it for research.

But my point? Don't let kids sit on the internet for most of their hours awake, and stay up late on them. They'll bitch and moan but if they discover the reason as they mature, they might appreciate it.

 

[SunSamurai]

I'm not really sure about parental filtering software, but here is some hardware I'm considering using:

 

[Crucial]

While this post is obvious in intent...

I wish to say... fuck censoring what your kids have access to.

And I say this knowing full well the shenanigans I got into on the web when I was young. And I did so even when my parents were home, and the computer was in the dining room, which was right next to the living room.

Of course, if the intent is to raise a child completely ignorant of what is out there in the world, subscribes to religious texts with such strong faith that they often respond "well god must want me to do this/this must have meant god didn't want me going through with this."

The big concept: don't censor their usage, merely control the amount of time they are allowed access, period.

There is some research pointing to a correlation between the amount of time youths spend on the internet and their likelihood to develop social problems and what they call "internet addiction." Again, I say this as someone who is quite likely diagnosable "addicted to internet."
And I don't even want to see any of the non-biased research for pornography. I've read quick quips from extremely religion-biased research, and that just doesn't cut it for research.

But my point? Don't let kids sit on the internet for most of their hours awake, and stay up late on them. They'll bitch and moan but if they discover the reason as they mature, they might appreciate it.

Let me guess, you're 22 and have no kids.

 

[Kadarin]

Probably the most effective filter: Take computer out of bedroom and put it in plain view in the living room.

 

[OCGuy]

Probably the most effective filter: Take computer out of bedroom and put it in plain view in the living room.

The only problem with that is that at some point you are going to catch your 12 year old son learning about life.


I remember when I was 11/12, my mom got Net Nanny. Funny thing was, it kept a txt file on the harddrive with the list of forbidden sites. Me and my brother got around the filter, and used the list as a reference

Mind you, this is the early 90s, where parents in their 30s/40s were clueless about computers.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I know the cheapest and most effective tool - adult supervision. Stop using the TV/computer as a babysitter and do some fucking parenting.

 

[Leros]

OpenDNS

OpenDNS has pretty decent filtering considering its free.

 

[dawp]

Let me guess, you're 22 and have no kids.

I'm 47 with 2 grown kids and never considered filtering and they had computers in their rooms. They're gonna do what they're gonna do, just like I did when i was young. and at that time filter could be killed by bringing up taskmaster with crtl-alt-delete and kill the process.

all they have to do is boot a livecd linux and that will bypass any filter you have installed in windows.

 

[StageLeft]

While this post is obvious in intent...

I wish to say... fuck censoring what your kids have access to.

And I say this knowing full well the shenanigans I got into on the web when I was young. And I did so even when my parents were home, and the computer was in the dining room, which was right next to the living room.

Of course, if the intent is to raise a child completely ignorant of what is out there in the world, subscribes to religious texts with such strong faith that they often respond "well god must want me to do this/this must have meant god didn't want me going through with this."

The big concept: don't censor their usage, merely control the amount of time they are allowed access, period.

There is some research pointing to a correlation between the amount of time youths spend on the internet and their likelihood to develop social problems and what they call "internet addiction." Again, I say this as someone who is quite likely diagnosable "addicted to internet."
And I don't even want to see any of the non-biased research for pornography. I've read quick quips from extremely religion-biased research, and that just doesn't cut it for research.

But my point? Don't let kids sit on the internet for most of their hours awake, and stay up late on them. They'll bitch and moan but if they discover the reason as they mature, they might appreciate it.

This is the problem with posting parenting questions on AT, where I would be surprised if not most are porn addicts and the vast majority don't even have kids. Because of responses like this from kids about how to raise kids.

I actually think that we're in an unfortunate age now from a porno standpoint. I'm 32. When I was a kid the only way anybody saw any nudity at all was if one of their friends somehow managed to grab a playboy from somewhere. The closest thing my friend and I got to seeing porn was waiting up very late on Saturday nights for a show that "sometimes" showed softcore. I really didn't see any real porn until college.

Now anybody whatsoever with an internet connection can find within 5 seconds a video of a teenage girl getting gang banged and pretending she likes it. It is absolutely going to have a profound effect on the sexuality of our kids growing up in this environment. And I don't think for the better. And by the time my daughters have a boyfriend he'll probably already have spent years twice/daily wanking to sh*t normal girls simply don't do, so what will he expect of them?

I know the cheapest and most effective tool - adult supervision. Stop using the TV/computer as a babysitter and do some fucking parenting.

That is why he created this thread, Einstein.

I will probably monitor my kids' usage and when they are driving I may get GPS in their car, too. And I'll tell them about it. I will trust them as far as a teenage deserves trust; trust but verify.

I'm 47 with 2 grown kids and never considered filtering and they had computers in their rooms

And when your kids were 12 was the internet full of porn? Certainly not to the extent it is now. Back then if nothing else you had to really try to get it.

 

[dawp]

And when your kids were 12 was the internet full of porn? Certainly not to the extent it is now. Back then if nothing else you had to really try to get it.

that was just 10-12 years ago and they woulld get access to porn anywhere, just like i did at there age, I had quite a collection then. porn is not the worst thing on the net.

give them the information they need to make the right choice(condoms) when the time comes.

 

[theflyingpig]

lol@ the fools in this thread. Internet filtering is pointless and only delays the inevitable. You will be wasting your time and money on your foolish attempt to stop what can't be stopped. It seems to me that parents have absolutely no common sense when it comes to dealing with children. Whenever someone suggests something that goes against their foolish views they simply cry "but, but I'm a parent, I know whats best! Do you have any kids?!!" lol how foolish. Everyone knows this.

 

[StageLeft]

lol@ the fools in this thread. Internet filtering is pointless and only delays the inevitable. You will be wasting your time and money on your foolish attempt to stop what can't be stopped. It seems to me that parents have absolutely no common sense when it comes to dealing with children. Whenever someone suggests something that goes against their foolish views they simply cry "but, but I'm a parent, I know whats best! Do you have any kids?!!" lol how foolish. Everyone knows this.

Great post, thanks!

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Day after next pill?

 

[Newbian]

Don't let them connect..that's about the only way to prevent them from finding atot.

 

[Modelworks]

OpenDNS is the easiest way to implement
Besides parental software another thing you can do is to place the pc in a common area of the home. Kid+pc in bedroom can lead to trouble.

 

[Modelworks]

lol@ the fools in this thread. Internet filtering is pointless and only delays the inevitable. You will be wasting your time and money on your foolish attempt to stop what can't be stopped. It seems to me that parents have absolutely no common sense when it comes to dealing with children. Whenever someone suggests something that goes against their foolish views they simply cry "but, but I'm a parent, I know whats best! Do you have any kids?!!" lol how foolish. Everyone knows this.

Some of us actually think that what a kid experiences forms what they will become as an adult. Crazy huh ?

 

[lxskllr]

OpenDNS is the easiest way to implement
Besides parental software another thing you can do is to place the pc in a common area of the home. Kid+pc in bedroom can lead to trouble.

My daughter's machine's in her room. I use a computer for multiple purposes, and encourage others to do so also. It's a work station, stereo, TV, and gaming center. All that works best when it's where you need it. There's no point in getting too uptight about filtering, because you don't control every machine in the world. Little precious is gonna see things you don't want them to see, but that's no reason to make it easy. I had to work for my waterlogged Penthouses I found when I was little, and I expect my kids to have to put some work into it also :^D

I use OpenDNS and filter the pornography, sexuality, and tasteless categories. That gets rid of the 4chan crap, without any bad hits. I tested Naomi(now defunct) a few years ago, and it was too aggressive with the filtering. It blocked legitimate content, and ruined the computing experience. I guess the point is, you shouldn't get too wound up with controlling everything. Make an effort so it isn't too easy, but where there's a will there's a way. If someone wants content, they'll get it.

 

[Cyco]

As others have mentioned K9 Web Protection works pretty well.

 

[ciproxr]

Cant believe some of the responses im reading, just cause theres ways around it you are not going to make an attempt to make it harder to access ? Thats the same logic as "well there gonna watch porn anyway i might as well leave my playboy laying around"