Re: Editorial about Filtering

[Marybeth Green <Marybe6262@AOL.COM>]

Nancy's point about the filtering companies making decisions was recently
examined in a research study conducted by the Department of Family Medicine at
the University of Michigan Medical School and published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association.

In this study, they examined how well 6 commercial and one private Internet
filter blocked health information for teens at settings including least
restrictive, moderately restrictive and very restrictive.  They found that at the
least restrictive setting only 1.4% of the health information sites were blocked
and 87% of the pornography sites were blocked.  At this setting, however, 10%
of the health sites related to sexuality were also blocked.  At the moderate
setting, 5% of the health information sites were blocked and 90% of the
pornography sites were blocked.  At the most restrictive setting, a setting commonly
chosen, 24% of the health information sites were blocked with only 91% of the
pornography sites blocked.

The point made by the study was that the most restrictive setting only added
moderately to blocking pornography and greatly to access to health
information.

Marybeth Green

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