Here is a paragraph from the booklet “It begins with running late for davening; next the daily shiur is dropped. How many mothers
and wives learned only months later that the
all-important shiur was really a daily chavrusa
with Mr. Internet? Minchah falls to the wayside
Why bother dressing as a frum Jew when there
is nothing frum about the person anymore. “
Because no one is talking about it (the asifa booklet) I can’t bring it as a proof of how certain organizations have a nonsensical view in regards to the internet? That seems kind of silly to me. Additionally you did say “in any event it barely if at all mentioned OTD rate, instead it goes on about the real risks to all of us” which did imply that you had read it and agreed to at least most of its content. I encourage viewers of this forum to read it and see what I am referring to – I have quoted some pretty insane passages from the thing before on this forum. There was actually a lively discussion about the booklet on this forum a while ago.
About the adults at work I meant that many can not use a filter. I don’t know what kind of standards qa has at your office but in most normal companies you aren’t allowed to install anything extra on a clean system. Having a filter defeats the whole purpose of running the tests. Talk to people who are in college and you will find out how frustrating it is for them to get by with a filter. And yes there are a substantial amount of medical students and women who need to access womens health related sites which have things a filter will find objectionable.
I have adblock on my computer which seems to do a pretty good job knocking off every popup and ad that I can throw at it. Also how do you propose to lock said filter in a way I can’t get around it in about 3 seconds? For adults the best you can really do is make sure you don’t come across the stuff if you aren’t interested. What kind of person or situation are you proposing that a filter will protect from (again we are referring to adults here) assuming that the person has at least a minimal amount of proficiency. Trust me I have helped plenty of friends struggling with filters they do block things they need all of the time and they are also for the most part ridiculously easy to circumvent.
I know plenty of developers and not a single one with a filter despite the fact that these people are highly educated about the technology out there and the dangers of the internet and they all feel the same way I do.
In regards to monitoring systems considering that you claim to be developer you gotta be kidding me. I have no interest in someone being able to reconstruct my ideas and actions from a browsing history – that could completely kill my business and I am sure that it would do the same to many others. Besides for the fact that again since I like many developers out there make a lot of use of virtual machines would make one completely useless.
You basically are asserting that since filters work for you they should work for everyone. To me that doesn’t seem like a very valid assertion.