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I checked at home, and I can indeed turn the feature on and off. Don’t know why it’s ‘working’ for me but not Nick. Also, the internet filter doesn’t appear to do a damn thing anyway, so I hope parents aren’t depending on that to keep porn from kids
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So I realized yesterday that my internet service provider (RoadRunner through Time Warner) started filtering content without telling anyone. At least they didn’t tell us.

I found out about it through this post on Lincolnite.com- if you try to go to an address that does not exist, roadrunner now overrides your browser’s default behavior and sends you to their search page. If you click on “What’s this?” You get an info box, and from there you can click on preferences. You can see below how I set my preferences- what bugs me is that the content filter was set to “on” by default. I can understand parents wanting filtering on their computers, but why must this be the default? And why did they activate it without telling anyone? (Unless I missed something in one of the 1000 pieces of mail they send me.) Besides, might they also be filtering bad reviews of RoadRunner or Time Warner- or anyone else who pays a price?

It may be time to look for another ISP. Unfortunately, there is no other option for cable internet in Lincoln, and we don’t have a phone line right now.