Many municipalities without abuse filters in schools

This is shown by a survey that the Ministry of Education has made based on information from Kripos and the Norwegian Police Directorate, writes VG.

– Abuse filters should have been in place in all municipalities a long time ago. It is a prerequisite that all students must be safe in everyday school life in order to learn well and thrive. Then we can’t have it so that the school PC becomes a source of porn and sexual exploitation, says Elise Waagen, spokeswoman for education policy in the Labor Party.

Kripos recommends that all student tablets and PCs be blocked once morest sites with sex appeals. A majority in the Storting does the same.

– Too passive

In a comment to NTB, Høyre’s Margret Hagerup says that it is too passive to go for a strong recommendation.

– There is no doubt that effective filters are needed. The Conservative Party and KrF put forward a proposal in the Storting that we must make demands for. It was unfortunately voted down by the government, writes Hagerup in an email.

KrF also states that they want an absolute requirement for abuse filters in all municipalities.

– Completely hair-raising

Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (KrF) says that the Storting already in 2018 adopted a recommendation that the municipalities should install abuse filters.

– A third of the country’s municipalities still do not have it. We cannot adopt the same thing once more and expect a different result, says Ropstad to NTB.

– The fact that children have access to gross violence and porn on the school’s network is completely hair-raising in my opinion. It should be completely uncontroversial to advocate an absolute requirement for such abuse filters in all municipalities, he says further.