On Saturday 09 June 2007 16:43, Sean Donelan wrote: [...]
Is a centralized filtering solution better or worse than a decentralized filtering solution? [...]
In my opinion, it is not. With centralized, who gets to decide what is filtered and why? I don't beleive a governmental entity should have to treat it's *adult* citizens like children. with de-centralized, it is the user's perrogative what gets filtered and what doesn't - if the user doesn't want their them or their children seeing certain content, then filtering is their option. As well as it gives the user power over *WHAT* gets filtered and *WHY*. From my view, ISPs should continue their role as "passing the packets" and not say what their users can or cannot view. It's when ISPs start interfering with what their users do is when we will run into legal, political and otherwise issues that I'm sure none of us want to see. And with ISP level filtering: what's to say a legitamate page won't get caught in the filter? i.e. if a news article is covering a child pornography story, what's to stop the filter from picking up on that and blocking the news site due to a false-positive?