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Article: Net filters sometimes block helpful health sites
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2002
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Net filters sometimes block helpful health sites
Study questions use of most restrictive filter setting at schools,
libraries
By JOHN SCHWARTZ New York Times News
Monday, December 16, 2002
Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information are
blocked from many useful sites by anti-pornography filters that
federal law requires in school and library computers, a study has
found.
The filtering programs tend to block references to such health,
sex and sex-related terms as "safe sex," "condoms," "abortion," "jock
itch," "gay" and "lesbian." Although the software can be adjusted to
allow access to most health-related Web sites, many schools and
libraries ratchet up the software's barriers ...