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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 03:47:12 UTC Robert McNees

   My daughter couldn’t finish her math homework tonight, because the assignment includes a question about how much soil you can put in a certain “pot,” and the school Chromebook has a filter installed that keeps getting triggered by an unsafe word.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 04:16:27 UTC Robert McNees

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     • sollat

     @sollat lol

   • sollat (sollat@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 04:16:28 UTC sollat

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     @mcnees
     Sheesh. “Container”?

   • Rick Gregory (rickg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 04:27:54 UTC Rick Gregory

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     @mcnees well if you put soul in the pot you might get weed…s

   • maudulation (maudulation@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 04:56:05 UTC maudulation

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     @mcnees 😅😒

   • Oscar Baechler (ogbog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 05:12:58 UTC Oscar Baechler

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     @mcnees my favorite example of this in WA was when Toppenish high school banned their own website for having the word penis

   • Steve Barnes (starfia@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 05:19:23 UTC Steve Barnes

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     Sounds like a decent premise for the next persuasive essay.

   • Jo (dzso@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 05:34:04 UTC Jo

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     @mcnees I remember when we used to believe that the internet would make information free.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 12:26:53 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Bryce

     @NationMeta No, it blocks the page *serving the question*. The page displays for a few seconds, showing a question that includes the word “pot,” then the filters redirect her to another page explaining that the previous page has triggered the filters.

   • Bryce (nationmeta@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 12:26:54 UTC Bryce

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     @mcnees while this is frustrating, it may be a good time to teach your child about a thesaurus. And using different phrasing than what the question provides in searches to achieve different results.

   • The Many Voices of Anne Ahlert (themanyvoices@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 12:48:04 UTC The Many Voices of Anne Ahlert

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     @mcnees
     A silly safeguard, indeed. But she will have to learn in life to get around lots of various weird programming-based user issues. Teach her to try to think of alternatives whenever the computer glitches or says no to something. In this case, maybe she can use alternatives like "flowerpot" (as one word), "box," etc.