New Zealand Herald reports Anti-porn software developed for schools by a company with links to fundamentalist Christians has been criticised for blocking students’ access to leftist political forums and websites on sexuality and health.
Education Minister Trevor Mallard approved the Watchdog Corporation’s CampusNet filtering software last year, as part of a $9.5 million package to help schools screen out hackers and objectionable material such as pornography.
I was wondering….
just what the heck is Christian porn? The Girls of Janette Oke Gone Wild?
Re:I was wondering….
My, my, my; what a sweet plum. Schools are falling apart at the seams, textbooks are grossly out of date, classrooms are badly overcrowded, but there is no amount of money too small or too large to shovel into the pockets of parasitic corporations to “protect” children from ideas that frighten adults.
Few background articles
The story originally surfaced on the Fundy Post:
http://www.nzarh.org.nz/thepost.htm
It was picked up by Russell Brown on his weblog:
http://www.publicaddress.net/default,2137.sm
As Brown is a ‘serious’ writer (he writes for the biggest selling weekly magazine in New Zealand, among other things) the story started getting mainstream attention once he wrote about it.
Lots more background info in the first link.