Net Nanny - total DUD

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So the Supremes say filtering software in public libraries is ok.

They installed "Net Nazi" in the business center of a friend's building. They are paying for the service and yet they cannot access political sites, gay, lesbian and transgender sites, as well as personals sites like Nerve.

She's not even getting some e-mail because it contains offending words.

I tried using one of the computers with Net Nazi on it, and I couldn't even read one sentence because it had many words blocked out with ########.

I'm wondering if this building is actually violating Chicago's Human Rights Ordinance and Fair Housing Ordinance by disallowing GLBT sites while right-wing homophobe sites are apparently OK.

We went into the lab when no one was there and changed all of the home pages on IE to gay.com, because when you do that, you get this image of the Net Nanny pointing her finger at you.

Unbelievable.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You should link Tubgirl onto the homepage of all of the browsers.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the court said specifically that the software was permissable because it could be turned off, so it's your right to have it turned off if you request. (Not that this is a fabulous state of affairs since one attracts attention with such a request, but there you go.)

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to mention that you have to know that it's your right to have it turned off. There's still too much interference here, IMO.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to mention that it's probably not something a front-line librarian would be doing, at least not in large libraries. First, you have to locate someone from the IT staff who can bypass all of the security that is put on public computers. Then you have to perform all of the necessary jiggery-pokery, put all of the security back on the computer, and by this time the person who requested that the filter be disabled has already died from the breast cancer she was trying to research in the first place.

Le sigh.

― jennpb (jennpb), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I have installed nat nanny in my computer. When I am working micro soft word net nanny is cutting in and cutting out the computer.I have tried using start setting control panel and add remove to delete it.
When I click on the add remove box net nanny is not there.Could you please tell me how to delete net nanny from my computer. Hoping that I have explained the problem to you.Hoping you can help me.
Yours faithfully
John Feeney

― John Feeney, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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