{"id":5397,"date":"2011-05-19T23:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:25:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T23:25:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:25:52","slug":"web-filter-provider-first-to-allow-access-to-glbt-educational-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/web-filter-provider-first-to-allow-access-to-glbt-educational-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Web filter provider first to allow access to GLBT educational websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightspeed Systems is believed to be the first major web filter provider to allow access to educational websites about GLBT issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/dont-filter-me\" target=\"_blank\">Change arose after the <strong>ACLU<\/strong> sent letters this spring to about 15 districts<\/a> as part of a campaign aimed at stopping the filtering of LGBT content. Four customers of Lightspeed Systems \u2014 North Kansas City School District in Missouri, Downingtown Area School District in Pennsylvania, Northfield Public Schools in Minnesota and Avoca School District 37 in suburban Chicago \u2014 were among those contacted by the ACLU in response to student complaints. An attorney for the ACLU  said five other web filter companies have categories that allow schools to block LGBT content. He praised Lightspeed and said he hoped the other companies would make similar changes.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/business\/article\/ACLU-Web-filter-provider-to-drop-LGBT-category-1386906.php#ixzz1MqGq175I\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightspeed Systems is believed to be the first major web filter provider to allow access to educational websites about GLBT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,195],"tags":[513,362],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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