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    • CommentAuthortestprof5
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2009 edited
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    Opendns is a good produced for firms. However, opendns is not at the moment ready for schools. A simple research in google.fr with the word "sexe" allows to find 2 or 3 sites in sites commercial witch are not blocked by opendns.
    It is not possible to block research motors, pupils sometimes need to do researches.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2009 edited
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    >>opendns is not at the moment ready for schools. A simple research in google.fr with the word "sexe"<<
    Sorry, sexuality is a matter of regular education at schools here in Germany. Is that different in France? I know France very well, as I spend several weeks a year there, but this is something, which I didn't become aware of.

    "It is not possible to block research motors, pupils sometimes need to do researches."
    Yes, it is possible to block search engines, but how should this go together if the students need to do researches? Any idea? I would think there is not really a solution with OpenDNS. You rather want to censor and falsify web content. You had to operate a proxy server, which can replace any occurrance of "sexe" in web pages by "fleur" or so.... :tongue:
    But then - what about the quality of researches in such a filtered web? You probably got the wrong approach - generally.
    • CommentAuthortestprof5
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2009 edited
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    it's not sexuality but pornography (only commercial sites at the right of google.fr) who are not blocked
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    You may wish to add some of these domains to your Always Block list.
    You may also wish to submit these domains to domain tagging, if they are not already listed, or vote on them if they are.

    Additionally, you might also list some domains in a post, and if a moderator finds them, they may be approved quickly. This sometimes happens.