Filter for Libraries
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| Justices Kennedy and Breyer have concurred in the judgment of Justices Renquist, O'Connor, Scalla and Thomas, but they did so on the basis that the Librarian is in immediate control of the behavior of the filter. | |||
| Justice Kennedy said " If, on the request of an adult user, librarian will unblock filtered material or disable the Internet software filter without significant delay, there is little to this case." | |||
| Justice Breyer said "As the plurality points out, the Act allows libraries to permit any adult patron access to an "overblocked" Web site; the adult patron need only ask a librarian to unblock the specific Web site or, alternatively ask the librarian, "Please disable the entire filter." | |||
| While the original law and the supreme court decision has upset many, there is existing software that does function the way that the justices described. If you are considering a filter now, you should be aware that iWayPatrol has been designed from the very first (over five years ago) to provide the full local control over the filtering process referred to by Kennedy and Breyer, including: the ability to instantly add and remove sites from the filter list; the ability to turn off the filtering at a specific terminal in the local network and the ability to override the filtering process at the terminal. |  |
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| iWayPatrol has been based on a balance of filtering techniques. Its approach was grounded in a philosophy that was as concerned about overblocking as it was about underblocking. | |||
| It is up to you to choose either an entrepenurial filtering company with a consistant local control design; or choose corporate filter company that made their fortune by accepting "collateral overblocking" and try to convince them to adjust their product to your environment. | |||
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