Ray Saintonge wrote:
In many cases where the parent would use the filter the kid is often smarter, and can probably figure out the override long before the parent realizes. I may not always admit it to him, but I feel proud when my 13 year old does things better than I do.
At least as long as we implement something like this in the same way that Google does, there would be no 'figuring out' involved. If you want to block something, you click on the link to "Turn on Safe Search" and if you want to unblock something, you click on the link to "Turn off or modify Safe Search".
I don't think that wikipedia, per se, should assist at all with how other people might want to enforce such things.
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Here's another way to look at it. I'm an adult, and my mother is too. She's from an earlier generation, and would be shocked to see an article on felching. It'd be nice to be able to sit down to wikipedia *with my own mother* and not worry about such things popping up. It's not about filtering or preventing access for another person, it's about being able to configure the site easily as an end user to account for such preferences.
If I want to learn about felching on my own, sometime when mom isn't watching, then I can. And if she wants to learn about it on her own, when I'm not there, that's fine too.
--Jimbo