ICT SupportStudy: Overzealous filters hinder research.

Study: Overzealous filters hinder research. Corey Murray. eSchool News Online October 2005. The internet-content filters most commonly used by schools block needed, legitimate content more often than not, according to a study by a university librarian. … the study's author, Lynn Sutton, director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, finds that internet filters are apt to block legitimate educational content. Tech-savvy students, meanwhile, argue that administrators should have more faith in their judgment and ability to deal with inappropriate content, and they blame the school--not their teachers--for prohibiting them from conducting sound, unbiased research, the report said. …