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...
Rep Mike Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com in an interview: "When children leave the home and go to school or the public library and have access to social-networking sites, we have reason to be...
Intercepting traffic for spam-filtering purposes or for blocking denial-of-service attacks was a different matter, Clayton added, because Ripa contains an exemption for technologies that are needed to protect the functioning of an ISP's service.