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jmclnxyesterday at 2:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can add porn sites to the hosts file yourself.


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pjc50yesterday at 3:07 PM

The point that people are making is that while restricting overt internet porn does remove it from sight of a lot of kids, it will also continue to circulate as "samizdat" through whatever filesharing mechanisms exist. When I was at school someone got busted for distributing BBS porn on floppy disks, no network required. Now we have terabyte SD cards.

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casey2yesterday at 3:54 PM

hosts file isn't even the correct tool for this job. I don't know why this is being suggested a serious solution. I can add domain names and chose which IP address they resolve to. It can't even block websites.

If I didn't know any better I would assume you are spreading misinformation to put children into an unsafe situation

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