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WA6IJD wrote:Instead of filtering by topic or subject, why not use a table and add domains to it. Seems the way to go. What do other people think?

Thank You

That would be known as ‘whitelisting’. I’ve already been shot down over the idea.

Good point. All the more reason to set the filter level to at least moderate.

We've got a legitimate 100Mb down (measured at the cable modem) and things still grind to a crawl on Sundays and Wednesday nights when we've got one ward's youth activities, stake interviews, family history instruction, and two institute classes. I LOVE the idea of restricting Twitter feeds, app upd...

In our stake center ~ 5 mins.

In preliminary testing, I've found that ancestry.com and skype.com can both be accessed in strict mode, but without their CSS. I suspect they're actually blocked and its just cache HTML. The Facebook, YouTube and Skype apps work in strict mode. When I get time I'll do a more exhaustive test.

Yep, an official letter to local leaders went out earlier today (STSs were copied in).

Disappointing, but ok.

The Church made an announcement today about additional filtering options for church leaders. I went ahead and set mine to "strict" and then let my Stake President know. I hope "strict" is a whitelist.

What I meant by safety, was in preventing obscene materials, which will drive away The Spirit.

So we can be confident that all that should be blacklisted, is already blacklisted, and that the blacklist is updated frequently, if not immediately. If not, we’re essentially saying that we would prefer to risk allowing a new smut site that has yet to be blacklisted, than risk losing access to a pa...