Researchers find that filters don’t prevent porn

guest · Jul 13, 2018

Researchers find that filters don’t prevent porn
July 13, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/researchers-find-that-filters-dont-prevent-porn/

In a paper entitled Internet Filtering and Adolescent Exposure to Online Sexual Material, Oxford Internet Institute researchers Victoria Nash and Andrew Przybylski found that Internet filters rarely work to keep adolescents away from online porn.
[...] Additionally, there are concerns about human rights violations – filtering can lead to ‘overblocking’, where young people are not able to access legitimate health and relationship information.”

This research follows the controversial news that the UK government was exploring a country-wide porn filter, a product that will most likely fail.
The bottom line? Filters are expensive and they don’t work.

Given the popularity – and lucrative nature – of filtering software this news should encourage parents and caregivers to look more closely and how and why they are filtering their home Internet. Ultimately, they might find, supervision is more important than software.
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