🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, OK .  Response so far 12 positive, 7 negative, 2 hostile

Hopefully, some of you will get past your "knee jerk, oh my god big
brother is watching paradigm" and consider the fact that conservative
bureaucrats are under great pressure to quell the fears of the computer
illiterate masses that think computers will steal their jobs as parents
and administrators and hypnotize their proginy into homosexuality,
pedophilia victims or chat addicts.

The reality is many companies and households are staying clear of
cyberspace based on a simple formula:

The people in top management of most companies AND most parents with
pre-teen and teen children are intimidated by the net ( mostly based on
media hype, right wing lobbying and movies like the "NET").  Of course
they are also the ones making the buying decisions and have the PURCHASING
POWER.

Example that lead to PC Chaperone: A close friend's company stripped them
of INTERNET priveleges based on the fact that a client saw a consultant
browsing newsgroups during a visit when the consultant bills hourly.
The company felt they did not have enough control of this situation to
assure the client, so they pulled individual access.  
The company has since agreed that since PC chaperone could be enabled with
the employees consent from 9 to 5 and turned off before and after, both
sides would benefit i.e. the consultants get T1 access to whatever they
want via company resources on "personal time" while the company feels it
has some control over users far more sophisticated than management on the
"company's" time.  It's not Utopia, but it's better than losing the
productive benefits of the net and retaining a sense of individual control
versus reactionary government control.
Of course, they still have nothing since I just started this process.

This may not be the best solution for all.  But I know it will help at
least one company feel comfortable enough to get back on track.  I believe
it will also help other companies and families on the fence to get
"on-line". Maybe it will force some to be more open about sexuality, since
this seems to be the big taboo.  Blocking access to your kids will not
equip them to handle what they'll experience in the street or at a friends
house.

If you find a snapshot of something you as a parent find offensive, you
have an opportunity to help your child deal with it in advance with YOUR
guidance.You watch them in the playground, why not watch them where they
are subject to every type of "stranger" imaginable in cyberspace. 

You don't have to agree.  You may consider recognizing that this program
will help some.  I find it more appealing than an FCC regulator, rating
system or "V-chip".  Let the info flow whatever it is........ then let the
computer purchaser decide how they want them used by people they allow to
use them.

If you don't like it, buy your own computer and do what you please. That's
what I would do.  I'd hate to think that after rebelling against my
adminitrator's monitoring, I found myself restricted by the religous
right!

If you don't want to help initiate the masses by making this easier for
them, please allow those of us who realize that the smartest, most
mathematicaaly adept programmers and code writers are NOT necessarily the
ones shaping laws and policies that will truly harm their freedom on the
net. I admire those programmers who have added value to this project by
utilizing their brilliance to help it move forward.  It's easy to tell me
why it won't work. I'm more interested in why it will work.

Thanks for your time.

Tushar