Where Politics And Video Games Collide

I'd like to raise the point that Internet filters are NOT a perfect answer. I've known two people, both over the age of 18, who had internet filters on their personal computers which were extremely disruptive of their internet activities. One person's blocker went so far as to actually censor anything they typed, actually removing curse words from messages sent via IM; the other's bans an extremely wide variety of sites, including not the major internet humor communities (such as 4chan and Something Awful), but Youtube and Google Image Search as well (not to mention a wide variety of other useful sites)! Every time one of them asks me to send them an image or an excerpt from a website because they can't access it, I'm reminded that while internet filtering software is an easy answer and certainly good enough for young children, automated blocking is a bit too heavy-handed for teenagers, who find their internet use much restricted.