Be Cooling Fan - Transcript - Hour 3, Segment 5

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David Lawrence: The Geek Speak phrase for this hour is Filter and this came up just moments ago and an instant message, hello I have a problem my son is looking at inappropriate websites, what is a good Web Filter Program, thank you. So filter what is a filter, filter is nothing more than technology that limits or excludes that, which you can see or work on. You can use filters in audio production, you can use filters with Photoshop. You can use filters to stop people from going to particular websites or to be able to instant message so on the problem. The problem is that filters are not reliable they are just simply not. When I was a kid I collected you know Baseball Cards, Bottle tops and Placemats, and you know Hot Wheels Cars and I was actually a Johnny Thunder guy but you know there were others out there so I will just assume it that they did Hot Wheels Cars. What did you collect when you were a kid Ms. Von Schtupp? Did you collect anything?

Ms. Von Schtupp: Barbies.

David Lawrence: Barbie*s there you go.

Ms. Von Schtupp: Anything that will connect now.

David Lawrence: Well but you collect shoes now too I understand. Yeah so then you didn*t do that when you were a kid but the point is today---

Ms. Von Schtupp: Actually I did.

David Lawrence: Alright, today kids collect crack codes. Crack codes for video games, crack codes for passwords, and crack codes for filters, so here is the problem. Parents sometimes use technology as a baby-sitter and I hate that. I hate that when a parents says oh just let them play on the computer and then I can you know have my coffee. Especially the computer we know what the Internet is capable of bringing into our homes, we know because some of us enjoy what the Internet capable of bringing into our homes. But we don*t necessarily want our kids to see that, right. Well if you wouldn*t put your child in the driver seat of a car and send them down to the worst parts of town so that you could have your coffee, why would you let them sit unattended at a computer connected to the Internet. It*s insane to me that you wouldn*t seat with your child, no matter what yes I understand it takes more time. But using a filter gives you nothing more than a temporary block and a false sense of security. Do you think that filter is going to last? You are dead wrong. All it takes is the next doubt of the class where that smart kid in the back of the room knows the crack code for Net Nanny or Cyber Sitter or whatever you have setup and no it doesn*t matter if it*s server side versus your client side. You are making a huge terrible mistake. Please reconsider using filters, don*t. Sit with your child teach them responsibility. I know it*s tough, it*s hard sometimes it is impossible, turn the machine off, go do something else. But don*t trust that filters are going to keep you safe or keep your child safe.

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