IP: three more on \cyberPatrol]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I believe this is a critical issue and while I am forwarding notes on snafu 
in filtering it is to show how this can damage the freedom of us all  djf


To: farber () cis upenn edu
From: Ellen Rony <erony () marin k12 ca us>
Subject: Re: IP: more on cyberPatrol

Starting in the seventh or eighth grade, students begin studying social
issues which include: gun control, violence in movies, alcoholism,
anorexia, drugs, abortion, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and more.
These social studies courses are designed to shine light upon the issues
of greatest concern that loom over modern American society. To complete
their research, these students benefit from an Internet that is free of
cyberPatrols and other forms of proxy censors.
Because education is accelerated these days, parents and teachers need to
train students how to discern between reliable information and mere
titillation. This is a skill that will become increasingly important as we
become exposed on a daily basis to information from sources that may be
simply self-serving or downright deceptive.

Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:54:47 -0500
To: david Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
From: Karen Ellis <guavaberry () earthlink net>
Subject: Beaver is a bad word. Why? CENSORED


A friend and I ran into each other a few nights back and started talking 
about Beaver College and their problem. What's the problem? Well,
their name, of course.
When I was a kid, I thought the name was queer - I mean
what kind of name is that? It's a bad word right? But I knew it was an
animal too and thought that makes it ok, it's an old school using a nice 
animal name.
I happened to grow up right down the street from Beaver College.You should 
see this school. It was and still is an enormous old stone castle, really 
out of a fairy tale - forested, spooky and thrilling. The only thing that 
was missing were knights on horseback and damsels in distress bent out of 
windows screaming for help. As a young adult I actually went inside - 
stained glass windows, dark brown mahogany, spiraled stair cases. I still 
expected to see the queen make and entrance any moment.
Well, what John told me was the "Powers that be" were thinking of changing 
the name from Beaver College to Beaver University. What happened? As it 
turns out the University part is ok, but it's the Beaver part that wasn't 
working.
Well, it seems that nobody realized it but due to the All Mighty, horrible, 
stupid, stinking, filtering software schools and anybody else uses, nobody 
is getting to the web site - Bonk ! Bonk!

So enjoy reading the article of the day - that is, if damn filtering software
lets you read it :-)
Karen Ellis <guavaberry () earthlink net>
The Educational CyberPlayGround
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:04:39 -0800
From: Mark Seiden <mis () seiden com>
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: [farber () cis upenn edu: IP: more on cyberPatrol]
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i

i'm not making this up either:
a well-known choral conductor in new york was told his web page
was unacceptable by some bogus software that detected he graduated
from yale, summa cum laude. (yes, the word "cum" set it off.)
my own opinion is: if they can't tell a potato chip from a
semiconductor chip, they're just selling buffalo chips.