Fransh give away internet filter software

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In a german internet magazine there was just now a new news for all of us...

Frensh providers are giving away easy to install internet filters for protecting children...

I will translate the article for y'all and post it here


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source http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72014


French providers implement Internet-Filters

Since April several frensh IPS offer easy to install child-protection-software for free (source European Digital Rights Initiative EDRI). French Provider organisation Associations des Fournisseurs d'Access et de Service de l'Internet (AFA) in a press release names the filters of Alice, AOL, Club Internet and Wanadoo. Other AFA-Members will follow soon.

The Filters are the result of a strong conflict between the providers and french prime minister Dominique de Villepin, who in tha past year demandet a per default protection for the internet-acces for all children and teens. De Villepin has announced an aggrevated version of the law for the digital Economy (LEN – L'Economie numérique).

The original draft of the law, which EDRI-Memberorganisation IRIS (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire) publicised arranged for a default filtering of web-content - Users would be explizitly have to request for the deactivation of the filter. In ongoing negotiations according ti IRIS the concludet on an opt-in sulution. During installation of the access software, new customers of Wanadoo will be guidet to the settings for ther filtering. Many of ther filteringsolutions base on a Black- and Whitelist. AOL France considers a filtering based on semantics.

Meryem Marzouki of IRIS cautions in her article for EDRI about how intransparent this "easy to install" filter functions and on which crieria the content is filtered. Many ISPs so it is believed by IRIS use filterlistings of the spanish company Optetnet and think that they (IPSs) are on the save side since Optenet is having contracts with the french Gobt.

With the problem of protection of children and young people filters the commission for youth medium protection (KJM) grapples around in Germany for over three years. The KJM determined in its first interim report that the construkt of the protection of children and young people programs embodied in the youth medium protectorate contract had proven not to be convertable so far. This is among other things because of the fact that the Jugendschuetzer did not want to take over a warranty for the effectiveness of the filters.

[robin]

Sooo, this is a web browsing filter? Or an email filter? And the filter is on by default? And the individual user (web surfer) has to request that the filter be turned off if they like porn?

[DEVELISH]

I haven't found any further info, Robin, but it sounds like you would have to turn it ON on an individual base since you are guided to it during installation...

The "on-by-default" filter was overridden (3rd paragraph)

If y'all are interested I will try to find more

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[robin]

Ahh thanks :develish: I was trying to clarify what I thought I was reading.