[CASL-L] FW: Soundcloud has been removed & buncee search

[Barbara Johnson]

I am not a fan of blocking or filtering, but I think the removal of Sound
Cloud from the EDU version is for the best, for now.



IF this has made you unhappy, Sound Cloud is still available at
www.buncee.com





*Barbara Johnson*

Library Media Specialist

Jack Jackter Intermediate School

www.jackjackterlibrary.com

@technojohnson



CT Digital Library Advisory Board

CASL Board of Directors

CECA Board of Directors

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*From:* Marie Clarke - Arturi [mailto:marie at buncee.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, April 7, 2016 11:33 AM
*To:* bajohnson at colchesterct.org
*Cc:* Bryan Gorman <bryan at buncee.com>
*Subject:* Soundcloud has been removed & buncee search



Barbara -



This is Marie, the CEO of eduBuncee.  Bryan mentioned your concerns to me
and please allow me to sincerely apologize on behalf of the entire buncee
team for your challenges.  Filtering search has been a priority of ours and
as Bryan mentioned - we use filtered search for the web media in
conjunction with our own in-house developed filters on top of that.  When
we first added Soundcloud, years ago, the comments weren’t what they are
today.  We have discussed removing Soundcloud a number of times as we
continued to add more inappropriate words to our filter.  Sadly, we did not
think of ‘Bill Clinton'.

As you see from the graphic below - your issue prompted us to finally
remove Soundcloud from eduBuncee.



We have put an enormous amount of time and energy into COPPA compliance and
are beginning conversations with iKeepSafe, which is a crawler that
validates what companies say they do - they actually do We just pulled Bing
search for images because even though we pulled the link with the image -
giving attribution to the site where it was found - we couldn’t always be
sure it was a Creative Commons image.  We changed our search to Pixabay,
which provides only Creative Commons images.



It is our firm commitment to continue to evaluate what is appropriate as
technology evolves.  We do use the filters for Youtube and Vimeo … but
can’t be 100% certain of results there as well.  We filter buncee but

cannot, obviously, filter the other sites.  These concerns also prompted us
to build out our School-wide version so that an administrator has controls
to turn off any media for a school or grade, with granularity down to the
individual student.



Every school is very, very different in how they approach what they offer
students - I am sure we will get questions today about Soundcloud being
removed, but I too share your concerns.



That being said ~ thank you very much for communicating your concerns.
Feedback will always make us a better company.



My very best ~



Marie







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