The research concludes that any ratings system or technology solution must be "easy to use and targeted in the right way, with an emphasis on the positive, empowering aspects - not blocking or depriving people of content but enabling them to...
Vodafone is in with a chance of winning the award for Most Appalling Project, for introducing content filtering that PI says amounts to the "systematic default blocking of all 'adult' websites". The early favourite to win the award for Worst Public...
The company has also been accused of blocking words such as "democracy" and "freedom" on its MSN site. Reporters Without Borders has also accused Google of blocking news items - that have garnered government disapproval - from its Google News China...
But by trying to block the government's efforts to review a week's worth of search terms, Google is holding up efforts to protect children from pornography, according to a brief filed on Friday by the DoJ.
The Bush administration argues that criminal sanctions in the 1998 law - which has been placed on hold by the courts - are more effective ways to shield children than anti-porn-filtering software. On 18 January, the Justice Department asked Ware to...
The Supreme Court has decided that protecting children is a compelling interest but because there are a host of "less intrusive" means of accomplishing the same goal, such as filtering and blocking software, the law probably wouldn't stand, he said.