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Controlling Web Content

Some basic advice on how to control Internet content
available to younger users.

 

Controlling web content from home is not easy, two minutes
and any nine-year-old can find some of the most distasteful
pornography ever propagated. The Internet is a haven for
perverts and weirdo's from web sites to chat rooms,
certainly not the place to let loose younger users without
an adult present.

 

But you can exert some control over what they can and can
not view, if you have to leave them alone.

 

Basic control is already installed on your computer system
on the very thing you view the Internet with, your browser.

 

For Internet Explorer 5 users go to 'Tools', then 'Internet
Options'. Select the Content tab and then in the Content
Advisor box click 'Enable'. You will then be presented with
a web page rating system, Internet Explorer uses will be
using the RSACi system.

 

Here you can set levels for language, nudity, sex and
violence. And on the General tab you can set a Supervisor
password so your little "darlings" can't undo your
censorship.

 

These systems work on the basis that the web site owner
registers with the relevant service provider, and places
rating tags into their web pages. However it is only as
secure as the web site owner wishes, for instance the owner
could rate their pages incorrectly or even misleadingly on
purpose.

 

These browser censorship controls are a good starting point
for controlling what younger viewers can see without you
being present, but of course should never be relied upon to
replace parent/adult supervision.

 

More information on parental control can be found at:
http://www.getnetwise.org/

 

 

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