A Chinese lawyer has demanded a public hearing to reconsider a government demand that all new personal computers carry Internet filtering software, adding to uproar over a plan critics say is ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – A comprehensive new study of Internet filtering software finds that libraries, schools and parents can bar access to pornographic Internet sites without necessarily blocking important ...

(TNS) — The Wake County school system is pledging to do a better job of keeping students from accessing inappropriate Internet content on school computers. The school board approved a one-year ...

The authorities are insisting that all Internet cafés and companies that make computers available to the public install the same sophisticated filtering and surveillance software that was recently ...

A variety of organizations, institutions, companies, and countries seek to restrict Internet access from within their premises and territories. For example, companies may seek to improve employee ...

Wake County paid $334,985 for filtering software to curb access to inappropriate content. District piloted the system since August, plans full rollout by April 1. New filter provides teacher-approved ...

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to announce that California-based software company Lightspeed Systems agreed to remove a web filter that had been blocking public school students' access to LGBT ...

Many school districts are at work developing policies that comply with the federal Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA. This legislation requires districts that use E-rate funds to put in ...