Re: parental controls for OLPC laptop?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:39:50 -0800, idiotprogrammer wrote:

Hi, I'm buying a XO/OLPC laptop for my 6 year old nephew. It runs
Linux/Sugar/etc.

I've been investigating solutions to have parental controls over his
web surfing.

I'm not a real fan of surveillance, but gosh, if I can keep out the
porn at least, that would be a victory.


Can anyone recommend anything on the machine itself? It has to be a
relatively lightweight and user-friendly solution.


Dan's guardian.

From what I've read, the content filtering on the hardware router
doesn't seem very reliable or good. (Linksys for example has stopped
supporting its parental controls feature on its laptop).

I'm going to be running a club for children who own a OLPC and will
probably need to give advice. (In houston, we have mainly Comcast and
ATT DSL, which offer Windows-based filtering solutions...not relevant
here).

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/1904?comment_start=6&comment_count=20#see_comments
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/7457?comment_start=6&comment_count=20#see_comments
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens2.html#pcsb
http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/

I probably could set cookies for google and yahoo for kid-friendly
stuff. But that doesn't seem to be an optimal solution. Can anyone
recommend other solutions good for linux surfers?

Robert Nagle
Houston, Texas
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/

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