Venting about an internet porn mishap

[Kris Detmer <Kdetmer@COLUMBIA.K12.MO.US>]

To start with, let me say that I am generally anti-filtering and I firmly =
believe that what consenting adults do is their own business.  Yesterday, =
however, a 3rd grader looking for web sites on the White House typed in, =
you guessed it, "whitehouse" with a .com extension instead of a .gov =
extension.  (I might add that he was NOT following directions, as all the =
sites needed were bookmarked and he never should have been typing in =
addresses in the first place.)

Well, he and the students near him got a topless eyeful, and his teacher, =
the principal, and I got a lot of extra paperwork.  My point is, why have =
graphic images on the front page of a pornographic site?  Any *responsible*=
 adult site has a text-only front page with a "yes, I am over 18" button =
to be clicked which leads into the real meat (no pun intended) of the =
site.  Then again, responsibility is probably too much to hope for on a =
site with a deliberately misleading name.

Thanks for letting me vent, folks.

Kris

Kristina Detmer
Russell Boulevard Elementary
Columbia, Missouri, USA
kdetmer@columbia.k12.mo.us

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