I like to think of myself as a liberal parent, but I know young children don't have the maturity to understand a lot of images on the Web. When I was a tyke I had nightmares for weeks after watching a movie that was considered risqué in the '60s. I would use another Web filter for my son, but I don't want him barred from a site about tree frogs, for example, because it shows how to determine a frog's sex, a word that filters often censor.
SpyCatcher's Surfin' Annette lets me restrict offensive sites but clear tame ones that other Web filters would automatically block. It comes with its own censoring tools, but I can turn them off and insert the URLs, words, or phrases that I've determined my son should not see. Or I can leave them on and add my own words and phrases. I can also override the blocking function: I can let him view the tree-frog site even if I've decided to censor the word sex.
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