Earlier this week, the Chinese government mandated that all PCs sold in the country must include "Green Dam Youth Escort" Internet-filtering software. That mandate is aimed at curbing the availability ...
BEIJING -- China's authoritarian government has backed away from an order to load Internet-filtering software on every new computer after a major outcry by citizens used to the relative freedom of ...
In the wake of a federal court's unanimous decision declaring the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) unconstitutional, supporters of the mandatory Internet filtering law have not only appealed ...
Top United States officials have urged China to abandon its controversial plan requiring all new personal computers to be sold with internet-filtering software from next week, warning the step could ...
Libraries in the Evergreen State may use Internet filters to prohibit access to pornographic Web sites, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling is a setback for groups such as the American ...
Various groups, mostly affiliated with religious organizations, distribute software that allegedly blocks out pornography and explicit sexual content. The idea is a good one – for those people who don ...
It seems that Internet filtering and reporting were two separate tools that needed to be purchased on a per user basis. With 115 users (at the time), the firm was not willing to incur that kind of ...
Late Monday the China Daily newspaper, in a story on its Website, quoted an unnamed source in China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) saying that the government "will not back ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether a law that requires libraries to install Internet filtering software on computers in return for some federal ...