Directory > Society > Issues > Science and Technology > Computers > Internet > Content Filtering > News Articles Oversensitive Censorware Strikes Again Sherril Babcock was surprised when she was recently rejected for membership at blackplanet.com because her name contained an obscene word. [DFN] http://www.netfreedom.org/news.asp?item=128 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Teen Exposes Blocking Software Exposing what sites CyberSitter actually blocks. [News.com] http://news.com.com/2100-1017-279119.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Libraries Debate Net Filtering The notion of filtering Net access at public libraries received very different reactions from the city councils of Coppell, Texas, and San Jose, California, where officials tried to balance concerns about online pornography with cries of censorship. [News.com] http://news.com.com/2100-1023-203548.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Net filter firm under fire Brian Milburn makes a good living selling parents a filtering program for Net porn. But with his success comes heated criticism that his product, Cybersitter, is a censorship tool. This week his company is being accused of trying to block communication from those critics as well. [CNET] http://news.com.com/2100-1023-207930.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Programmer finds filtering system too diligent As Congress mulls whether smut-blocking software should be installed in all public schools and libraries, a computer programmer on Tuesday published a report alleging that at least one filtering company takes its job too far. [CNET.com] http://news.com.com/2100-1023-247556.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Cyber Patrol Unblocks The Register Account from a popular IT news site that was blocked by Cyber Patrol. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17465.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Cybersitter Decides to Take a Time Out Cybersitter blocks Time magazine after a critical article. [Time] http://www.onmagazine.com/on-mag/reviews/article/0,9985,12392,00.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Cyber Patrol Ban List Published on the Web Anyone eager to know which Usenet newsgroups and Web URLs are blacklisted by Mattel's Cyber Patrol censorware application, but too lazy to compile and run the cphack utility which decrypts the list, is welcome to visit the Cyber Patrol Block List Web site. [The Register] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10205.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Filtering Out Morality A World Magazine article critical of CyberPatrol's decision to include the American Family Association's website in their intolerance category. [World] http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/06-27-98/cultural_2.asp Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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