This morning I saw how commonplace Porno Video of frankly crude conduct has become. The "movie channel" had at 730 am- prime time for kids getting ready for school- a pornfest. Folks- usually we see stuff of this sort on the camslut torrents not on any "non pay" media. Suffice to say it was *NOT* ok for singledigit age kids to be watching. But they COULD if someone were not both aware of the issue- and empowered to control; it! So my porno surprise hatched a question. And let me preface this by admitting that I have never used Tivo or ANY of the PVR type systems personally. So I plead ignorance of their capabilities or limitations. Thus-
Can the Linux projects for PVR media centers be used to create a personal content firewall?
It's at first an almost oxymoronic application question. Then again- the issues are as usual, in the details. My initial core concept is starkly simple yet nontrivial to make simply easy. I want to have some method of recording kid safe content and -an ability to audit anything questionable if ratings or other rulesets make that indicated. So the only content that the kids see is as censored as practical.. My stepdaughter has 4 kids under 10 years old. So she's become the target customer for my application question. She does NOT have time to either hand censor all the kids'content in real time, nor the computer skills we do to even semi automate the task. Can we offer any help?
Let me close with my overwhelming reasoning for posting this.
The only person having final veto over what their children watch is their parent in control. And we can create an instrumentality of that control.