Regulating Minors’ Net Access Can Backfire

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Author: JT Smith

From SF Gate: “When Chris Manley, a high school senior in South Carolina, started thinking about applying for college, his teachers recommended he use the school library computer to research universities like Duke and Stanford. But he couldn’t reach their Web sites. This was hardly a case of computer illiteracy. “At my school they have filtering software,” Manley says simply, “and I can’t get to these sites, because they’ve been blocked.””