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Australia Rejects Mandatory Censorware
On December 4th, 2004 with 4 comments
Australia has rejected mandatory use of censorware in an effort to stop child pornography. Sayeth Communications Minister Helen Coonan: "The biggest issue is...
MSN Spaces and its Silly Word-Blocking
On December 3rd, 2004 with 2 comments
BoingBoing has a story today on how Microsoft's new blogging tool, MSN Spaces, does word-based blocking of your blog entries. Sad and funny. I saw two stories...
Pentagon Admits Censoring Casualty Sites
On September 17th, 2004 with 1 comments
As reported by Eric Umansky:
Two Army spokespeople have now explained to me that it is indeed the Army’s intention to purposely block service-members...
COPA Sent Back To Lower Court By SCOTUS, 5-4
On June 29th, 2004 with 1 comments
Details are sketchy so far, but it seems the Supreme Court has decided 5-4 that "a lower court was correct to block [the Child Online Protection Act] from...
Slimming the Net, Open-Source Style
On May 27th, 2004 with 584 comments
NewsForge has an article today on how U.S. and Open Source Censorship Slims the Net. Interesting quotes from censorware providers (it's better than...
Back to 1996, Part II: the U.S. Government
On May 3rd, 2004 with 0 comments
The U.S. government, eager to show oppressed nations how we allow free speech, is blocking the people of China and Iran from accessing our embassies, drug...
Google and Spam-Filtering: Back to 1996
On April 24th, 2004 with 1018 comments
Remember the bad old days of 1996 when censorware was like CyberPatrol and CyberSitter: utterly atrocious, almost too bad to be worth criticizing? Well, the...
Public Libraries, Disable Your Filters
On April 8th, 2004 with 0 comments
First Monday has a new piece by Mary Minow, a former librarian and currently a lawyer and library law consultant. In the piece, Lawfully Surfing the Net:...
Saudi Arabia's Censorware -- An Inside View
On January 14th, 2004 with 0 comments
Robin Miller is in Saudi Arabia right now, and has filed a report on the country's censorware:
The Saudi Internet filters are easy to defeat. I found at least...
SurfControl Blocks Blogs
On November 16th, 2003 with 320 comments
The creator of weblog.infoworld.com discovered that his blog is
blocked by SurfControl.
Specifically, SurfControl puts blogs in the same category as Usenet,...
Two New Censorware Pieces of Note
On November 13th, 2003 with 3 comments
First, David Sobel, the General Counsel of The Electronic Privacy Information Center, in conjunction with The First Amendment Center, has published a new piece...
Censorware Exemption to DMCA Anti-circumvention Provisions In Effect For Another Three Years
On October 28th, 2003 with 0 comments
Today, the Librarian of Congress completed the triennial rulemaking process concerning exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital...
Adieu, Old Fiend
On October 15th, 2003 with 0 comments
For some, the news may be sad, for others, it may be good, still others may not care a whit. But we feel compelled to note the passing of N2H2, the makers of...
New Study of Internet Blocking in Public Schools
On June 24th, 2003 with 379 comments
Perhaps coincidentally timed with the Supreme Court's decision in the CIPA case, today EFF and the Online Policy Group released a joint report, Internet...
CIPA Upheld
On June 23rd, 2003 with 0 comments
The Supreme Court today
upheld the Children's Internet Protection Act,
6-3, so it will remain law affecting schools and libraries that accept federal funds....
Stay Tuned For CIPA Decision
On June 20th, 2003 with 0 comments
The New York Times today has
a piece by Linda Greenhouse
on the end of the Supreme Court's current term. It includes some speculation on the case we're all...
New Law Review Article Argues That CIPA is Unconstitutional
On June 15th, 2003 with 0 comments
Steven D. Hinckley, Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology & Professor of Law, University of South Carolina, has just had published in the...
Report on German Blocking of Overseas Hate Sites
On June 6th, 2003 with 0 comments
German researcher Maximillian Dornseif has published a report on the features and flaws in the German government's attempts to censor overseas "hate" sites...
8e6 Technologies Blocks MSN Search as 'Criminal'
On May 16th, 2003 with 1 comments
Chris Hobbs
reports that 8e6 Technologies recently blocked MSN Search as "Criminal Skills." 8e6 makes a variety of censorware products. Here's a
screenshot
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Google SafeSearch - What Are You Missing?
On April 10th, 2003 with 1 comments
Benjamin Edelman gets two stories in a row on censorware.net. After the
disappointing conclusion
of his court case, the Harvard Law School student released his...
Report on Edelman v. N2H2 Court Hearing
On April 2nd, 2003 with 0 comments
Back in July 2002, Ben Edelman, a student at Harvard Law School, a Student Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the expert...
Interesting Article on CIPA and Censorship
On March 20th, 2003 with 2 comments
Kari Lydersen, a writer for the Washington Post and an Instructor for the Urban Youth International Journalism Program in Chicago, has an interesting piece on...
Supreme Court Official Transcript of CIPA Argument Now Online
On March 19th, 2003 with 1 comments
The Supreme Court now has put online the the official transcript of the March 5 oral argument in the CIPA case, United States v. American Library Association.
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CIPA Oral Argument Coverage
On March 5th, 2003 with 2 comments
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the CIPA case,
United States v. American Library Association,
challenging the constitutionality of the...
"Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses: Prevalence and Significance"
On February 20th, 2003 with 3 comments
Ben Edelman of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has done an interesting new study called Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses:...
ACLU, ALA and Amici File Supreme Court Briefs Arguing that CIPA is Unconstitutional
On February 11th, 2003 with 3 comments
Yesterday, ACLU and the American Library Association filed their briefs in the United States Supreme Court arguing that CIPA, the Children's Internet...
Business 2.0 Says: Loosen Up!
On February 7th, 2003 with 1 comments
Business 2.0 magazine asks:
Why Spy?
Anyone who's worked in an environment of mistrust knows what that can do to their own productivity. This article comes...
CIPA Appeal Date Set: March 5, 2003
On December 20th, 2002 with 4 comments
Scheduling news from the ALA:
Supreme Court sets schedule for CIPA appeal: ALA arguments to begin March 5
Arguments on the Children's Internet Protection Act...
What China Censors
On December 4th, 2002 with 3 comments
Researchers at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society revealed yesterday some of the details about how China is blocking the internet...
