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A Web-rating system touted by Microsoft, AOL Time Warner and Yahoo as a way to protect children may
be far less useful than its backers have claimed.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47808,00.html
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Virginians Weigh Library Net-Blocking Suit
The constitutionality of Loudoun County's new library Net access rules requiring blocking for all
patrons and parental permission for people under 18 is questioned by a citizens group. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/7967.html
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PICS Walks Fine Line on Net Filtering
The World Wide Web Consortium's updates to the content-labeling framework are meant to smooth the
way for transparent filtering mechanisms. And they're sure to bring more fuel for the Internet
censorship debate. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/9176.html
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Report Takes Aim at Cyber Patrol's Blacklist
Activists take a hard look at site-blocking software. The results are not friendly to filtering
ears. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/9371.html
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California Library Ends Net Filtering
The Kern County Board of Supervisors, under threat of an imminent free-speech lawsuit, agrees to
stop filtering content on its libraries' Internet terminals. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/9928.html
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'Family' Site Gets Stung
The American Family Association supports blocking software, but calls the block against its own
anti-gay rhetoric "hypocritical." By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/12701.html
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Negotiating the Global Net Filter
A conference today brings the global community together to examine issues of filtering online
content. By Ashley Craddock. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/12838.html
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Filtering Out the Filters
A university student makes a point about censorship on the Net by breaking Netscape's
content-filtering option. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/14505.html
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A 'Crossing Guard' for Net Hate
A watchdog organization develops software to block racist and anti-semitic sites from the eyes of
young netsurfers. Is filtering hate speech a slippery slope? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/16197.html
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Library Filters Must Go
A Virginia judge rules that local libraries must remove Net-filtering software on public computers,
setting a nationwide precedent. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/16455.html
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Library Computers Logged Off
A library system goes offline, avoiding a judge's order to remove Net filtering software from
public computers. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/16481.html
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Censoring Censorware
One University of Massachusetts student is so opposed to the idea of censorship that he's offering
software code to disable the blocking software provided by Internet Explorer. By Chris Oakes.
[Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/17896.html
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The Case of the Pilfered Filter
America Online's ICQ chat service filter lets users filter dirty words, apparently with a list
illegally borrowed from an old version of Cybersitter. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/18516.html
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Library Won't Appeal Porn Ruling
A cash-strapped Virginia library decides not to appeal a court ruling that it violated the First
Amendment by installing Net filtering software. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/19272.html
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Annoy.com Peeved at Blacklisting
Although the site invites users to send their friends explicit, subversive postcards, Annoy.com's
founder resents MindSpring filtering everything into the mulcher, as if it were common spam. By
Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/19680.html
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Dr. Laura Saves Censorware Law
In an effort to save a foundering library filtering bill, the popular radio talk-show host asks
loyal fans to lobby California lawmakers. Their calls might have done it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired
News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/19799.html
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Write a Complaint, Get Emailbombed
Solid Oak is under fire from a woman who says the maker of Cybersitter Web filtering software
launched an email attack against her after she sent it a critical message. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/10170.html
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Filters Kowtowing to Hate?
The most popular filtering programs allow their users to freely visit the websites of
arch-conservative groups like Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America, which feature
strident denunciations of homosexuality. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36621,00.html
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Cybersitter Stops the Music
Solid Oak's Cybersitter software will soon block day trading and MP3s in addition to porn sites.
Net gambling filters are next, and who knows what else? By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/20491.html
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Turning the Screws on Content
Forced by a new law to bar smut from their networks, Australian Internet service providers must now
cope with a tangle of proxies, filtering programs, and enforcement guidelines. Analysis by Stewart
Taggart. [Wired News]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/story/20496.html
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