Re: Researchers find that filters don't prevent porn

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: L Jean Camp <ljeanc () gmail com>
> Date: July 14, 2018 at 11:49:20 PM GMT+9
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Researchers find that filters don't prevent porn
> Reply-To: ljeanc () gmail com
>
> Culturally we have problems distinguishing "Sexual" from "women's bodies", which is, of course, related to why I have 
> to walk past screaming haters to get cancer screening at Planned Parenthood.
>
> Please read the Comstock Laws in the US, or the Saudi constraints on information about women's bodies. 
>
> Computers cannot define the difference between consensual activities, health information, and assault because 
> culturally people cannot either.  If porn consisted of healthy consensual activities no one would care. 
>
> A computer cannot implement inconsistent irrational arbitrary filters, surprise. 
>
> Imagine that boys, going back to get your second cancer screening and passing spittle-flecked women howling about the 
> inherent sexual and sacred nature  of your colon.  That would be insane, and it is reality for many women. 
>
> Our culture is crazy, deadly, hateful about women and sex. Computers cannot do that particular kind of crazy.
>
>
>
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
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> > > From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > > Date: July 14, 2018 at 19:43:54 GMT+9
> > > To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> > > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Researchers find that filters don't prevent porn
> > > Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
> > >
> > > [Note:  This item comes from friend David Rosenthal.  DLH]
> > >
> > > Researchers find that filters don’t prevent porn
> > > By John Biggs
> > > Jul 13 2018
> > > <https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/researchers-find-that-filters-dont-prevent-porn/>
> > >
> > > In a paper entitled Internet Filtering and Adolescent Exposure to Online Sexual Material, Oxford Internet Institute 
> > > researchers Victoria Nash and Andrew Przybylski found that Internet filters rarely work to keep adolescents away 
> > > from online porn.
> > >
> > > “It’s important to consider the efficacy of Internet filtering,” said Dr, Nash. “Internet filtering tools are 
> > > expensive to develop and maintain, and can easily ‘underblock’ due to the constant development of new ways of 
> > > sharing content. Additionally, there are concerns about human rights violations – filtering can lead to 
> > > ‘overblocking’, where young people are not able to access legitimate health and relationship information.”
> > >
> > > This research follows the controversial news that the UK government was exploring a country-wide porn filter, a 
> > > product that will most likely fail. The UK would join countries around the world who filter the public Internet for 
> > > religious or political reasons.
> > >
> > > The bottom line? Filters are expensive and they don’t work.
> > >
> > > Given these substantial costs and limitations, it is noteworthy that there is little consistent evidence that 
> > > filtering is effective at shielding young people from online sexual material. A pair of studies reporting on data 
> > > collected in 2005, before the rise of smartphones and tablets, provides tentative evidence that Internet filtering 
> > > might reduce the relative risk of young people countering sexual material. A more recent study, analyzing data 
> > > collected a decade after these papers, provided strong evidence that caregivers’ use of Internet filtering 
> > > technologies did not reduce children’s exposure to a range of aversive online experiences including, but not 
> > > limited to, encountering sexual content that made them feel uncomfortable.21 Given studies on this topic are few in 
> > > number and the findings are decidedly mixed, the evidence base supporting the widespread use of Internet filtering 
> > > is currently weak.
> > >
> > > The researchers “found that Internet filtering tools are ineffective and in most cases [and] were an insignificant 
> > > factor in whether young people had seen explicit sexual content.”
> > >
> > > The study’s most interesting finding was that between 17 and 77 households “would need to use Internet filtering 
> > > tools in order to prevent a single young person from accessing sexual content” and even then a filter “showed no 
> > > statistically or practically significant protective effects.”
> > >
> > > The study looked at 9,352 male and 9,357 female subjects from the EU and the UK and found that almost 50 percent of 
> > > the subjects had some sort of Internet filter at home. Regardless of the filters installed, subjects still saw 
> > > approximately the same amount of porn.
> > >
> > > “Many caregivers and policy makers consider Internet filters a useful technology for keeping young people safe 
> > > online. Although this position might make intuitive sense, there is little empirical evidence that Internet filters 
> > > provide an effective means to limit children’s and adolescents’ exposure to online sexual material. There are 
> > > nontrivial economic, informational, and human rights costs associated with filtering that need to be balanced 
> > > against any observed benefits,” wrote the researchers. “Given this, it is critical to know possible benefits can be 
> > > balanced against their costs. Our studies were conducted to test this proposition, and our findings indicated that 
> > > filtering does not play a practically significant protective role.”
> > >
> > > [snip]
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