Doing it at home requires more work on your part as an individual, but hopefully the effort will result in a more satisfying experience for you and your child. For those who insist on the ISP approach, I hope you also insist on having a hand in setting the rules for censorship. We've received e-mail from a few readers asking us not to call it that on our Web site. It's easy to point to new media as a source for societal woe. But it isn't so.
Ideas breed ideas.
The more easily ideas flow, the more quickly and efficiently we as a society grow and evolve. Free speech is the grease that allows that flow. You can hate the tasteless side of the Web and when content crosses the line from offensive to libelous or provokes fighting, then those who crossed that line should be dealt with under the rules that we've used for so many years. The Web empowers us all to put forth our ideas and to see those of others. Don't let those who fear new ideas bully us into unneeded censorship.