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What about for your kid's smart phone? What about in library computers, or the your kid's friends computer? Internet devices are ubiquitous. Most kids today probably surf the web as much if not more outside the house than in it.

Most kids are more tech savvy than their parents and can easily get around software installed on the PC with a Ubuntu live boot disk or by other means.

Many of these filtering softwares have less than current definitions, or need constant updating. Others have terrible fuzzy logic engines.

PC web filtering software has been around for at least 20 years and are not the answer to the porn industry targeting children.



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