"Protecting" children (and adults with paper-thin sensibilities) by
hiding/filtering/censoring online content deemed "adult" has a long history of not working very
well. My mother was a children's librarian for a long time in a town in
Essex County, NJ, and remembers when the filtering software blocked
searches of kids trying to research their county government.
But it takes an ambitious effort to fail quite as spectacularly has Amazon has in its attempts to remove the sales ranking from books deemed "adult." (via Jezebel).
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