Some resources on Internet filtering and blocking… Let me know if you have suggestions for additions to this list!

Be informed

• Don’t be a mushroom when it comes to filtering

Research on actual risks

• Juvenoia, part 1: Why Internet fear is overrated
• Juvenoia, part 2: So why are we afraid?
• Enhancing child safety and online technologies (Internet Safety Technical Task Force)
• The myth of online predators
• Online ‘predators’ and their victims

What the law requires

• Straight from the DOE: Dispelling myths about blocked sites
• FCC opens access to social media sites for e-Rate users
• What CIPA is NOT…
• What about CIPA?
• Unmasking the Digital Truth wiki

What are you really blocking?

• An open letter to school leaders now manning the firewalls of education
• What schools are really blocking when they block social media
• A tale of two students
• 2013 Clarity data item 04: Filtering and blocking (Prairie Lakes AEA data)

Getting beyond fear

• 27 Internet safety talking points
• Web 2.0 fuels content filtering debate
• The way we should be thinking about Internet filtering
• Don’t touch that dial! (a history of media technology scares)
• What’s your district’s TAR score?
• Relax. It is you… and them
• Beware of the Internet safety industrial complex
• In praise of security theater