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Separating Students From Smut

Aug 30, 2001

Schools in the United States must certify by October 29 that they comply with content filtering standards or they will lose technology funding. The standards focus on sites that appeal to a "a prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion." If it were me, I would filter sites that promote McDonalds, Disney, and Philip Morris products. By Katie Dean, Wired News, August 29, 2001.

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