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As the parent of a 1 year old, this looks great, can the content filtering be disabled, since this is a Live CD?

I wonder if there's any evidence whatsoever for content filtering actually being useful for children's development, as opposed to just reinforcing societal squeamishness.

The example they have[1] on their page is blocking the DuckDuck go result for "sex", whose first result is the Wikipedia article.

I really can't imagine why a child who's developed enough to search for that on their own isn't ready to read about it. To the extent that the parent needs to be around to explain things to the child I don't see how that needs to be done for sex in particular, as opposed to say economics.

1. http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/documentation-7/advan...




I'm certainly not letting my 2 year old on the Internet without me sitting next to her, so I'd want the filters disabled too. I am the filter.




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