is way, children can be kept away from offensive material and adults can continue to enjoy their Internet freedom. Another technological fix is for parents and guardians to have a separate "proxy server" for their children's web browser. A "proxy server" is a program that disallows uses of some specified Internet sites or Usenet newsgroups. The parents need to actively select sites their proxy server can access. Parental control tools is a very possible solution to the problem, as stated in the "Communications Decency Act Issues Page" by the Center for Democracy and Technology, "what will help parents control their children's access to the Internet is Parental Control tools and features, such as those provided by several major online services and available as over-the-counter software" ("Stop the Communications ..." n.p.). Tools for controlling Internet access by children are widely available, and parents can already control their children's access to the material on the Net. There are no computer programs to automatically and reliably classify material; only people can do it. As a result, while practicing technological fixes, the classification of the contents of the material when posting is very important. Nowadays, most Internet users classify their postings with standard categories, and leave signatures at the end of postings. According to Allison and Baxter, "items are signed with a secure digital signature that can be traced to a real person, company or organization" (Allison, Baxter 4). The strengths of the material are often classified as "strong" or "weak", and attitudes of a given document towards a topic are often classified as "advocates", "discusses", "deplores", or "does not discuss". Additionally, in order to reduce the effort of classifying many individual items, particularly in the case of FTP and WWW, classifications are often attached to directories and inherited by subdirectories and documents. In this way, readers c...
