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Using Open Source to Fight Porn

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Michael Tiemann
Mar 8, 2008

“A new Red Hat employee queried an internal email list as to
methods of protecting their children from accessing pornography,
and through the responses I learned a few things I thought I’d
share…

“Perhaps the first question to answer is ‘what is to be
protected’? We live in a media-saturated culture where some of the
raciest material is to be found in all its pixelated glory of some
of the most conservative TV programs…”

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Michael Tiemann

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