During early COVID lockdowns, a teen raised $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web
This is genuinely really cool. I worked IT at a school for a bit, and for anyone who doesn’t know, having a good web filter is extremely important for legal reasons. The people in charge of implementing it can get into a lot of trouble if it’s done improperly, hence why they always seem to block things so aggressively.
All of the current offering are complete garbage, with Lightspeed being the worst offender. An open source alternative could do a lot of good. I hope this kid is successful.
This is genuinely really cool. I worked IT at a school for a bit, and for anyone who doesn’t know, having a good web filter is extremely important for legal reasons. The people in charge of implementing it can get into a lot of trouble if it’s done improperly, hence why they always seem to block things so aggressively.
All of the current offering are complete garbage, with Lightspeed being the worst offender. An open source alternative could do a lot of good. I hope this kid is successful.