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Filters Placed on School Computers
The Russian Federal Agency for Education announced yesterday that all schools will be equipped with a system to block access to porno and extremist websites and other Internet resources “incompatible with the tasks of education,” such as alcohol advertising and “indecent humor.” The system is part of the required school program package that cost 2.7 billion rubles in budget money. Administrators complain that the forbidden material can still be accessed through searchers, however.
The systems will be in all schools by the end of the month. Now it is n place in 84 percent of schools. The system has two levels. The first level is a constantly updated list of such sites that is maintained by the educational agency. The agency is automatically informed of addresses accessed by students and then the computer analyzed them and blocks the sites necessary within a few hours of the initial access. The Center for the Analysis of Internet Resources analyzed about 6 billion addresses in 2007 and blocked 200 million of them.
Computer games, websites for sending SMS, sites with illegal assistance with schoolwork and some other entertainment sites will also be filtered out. Some school administrators say that they are unaware of the system and have not received it or that it is easily defeated.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 28, 2008
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