When I was a kid, my mum got an internet censoring thing which closed the browser if one Googled (or Yahoo'd or even Ask Jeeves'd) any word remotely related to sex or nudity (including the likes of f*ck or ass), and blocked any page featuring those words. Regardless of context. This gave me no end of grief as one of my favourite bands back then was the Sex Pistols. Talking my mum into getting rid of it was easy, once I demonstrated that googling a word like "embarrass" would instantly close the browser. Even she agrees that it was utterly ridiculous.
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