Search The Directory The Web for Home > Computers > Software > Internet > Servers > Proxy > Filtering > Censorware > Opinions > News Articles > Wired_News New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   'Family' Site Gets Stung - The American Family Association supports blocking software, but calls the block against its own anti-gay rhetoric "hypocritical." By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   A 'Crossing Guard' for Net Hate - A watchdog organization develops software to block racist and anti-semitic sites from the eyes of young netsurfers. Is filtering hate speech a slippery slope? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Annoy.com Peeved at Blacklisting - Although the site invites users to send their friends explicit, subversive postcards, Annoy.com's founder resents MindSpring filtering everything into the mulcher, as if it were common spam. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   California Library Ends Net Filtering - The Kern County Board of Supervisors, under threat of an imminent free-speech lawsuit, agrees to stop filtering content on its libraries' Internet terminals. [Wired News]   Censoring Censorware - One University of Massachusetts student is so opposed to the idea of censorship that he's offering software code to disable the blocking software provided by Internet Explorer. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cybersitter Stops the Music - Solid Oak's Cybersitter software will soon block day trading and MP3s in addition to porn sites. Net gambling filters are next, and who knows what else? By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   Dr. Laura Saves Censorware Law - In an effort to save a foundering library filtering bill, the popular radio talk-show host asks loyal fans to lobby California lawmakers. Their calls might have done it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Filtering Out the Filters - A university student makes a point about censorship on the Net by breaking Netscape's content-filtering option. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Filters Kowtowing to Hate? - The most popular filtering programs allow their users to freely visit the websites of arch-conservative groups like Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America, which feature strident denunciations of homosexuality. [Wired]   Library Computers Logged Off - A library system goes offline, avoiding a judge's order to remove Net filtering software from public computers. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Library Filters Must Go - A Virginia judge rules that local libraries must remove Net-filtering software on public computers, setting a nationwide precedent. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Library Won't Appeal Porn Ruling - A cash-strapped Virginia library decides not to appeal a court ruling that it violated the First Amendment by installing Net filtering software. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Negotiating the Global Net Filter - A conference today brings the global community together to examine issues of filtering online content. By Ashley Craddock. [Wired News]   PICS Walks Fine Line on Net Filtering - The World Wide Web Consortium's updates to the content-labeling framework are meant to smooth the way for transparent filtering mechanisms. And they're sure to bring more fuel for the Internet censorship debate. [Wired News]   Report Takes Aim at Cyber Patrol's Blacklist - Activists take a hard look at site-blocking software. The results are not friendly to filtering ears. [Wired News]   The Case of the Pilfered Filter - America Online's ICQ chat service filter lets users filter dirty words, apparently with a list illegally borrowed from an old version of Cybersitter. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   Turning the Screws on Content - Forced by a new law to bar smut from their networks, Australian Internet service providers must now cope with a tangle of proxies, filtering programs, and enforcement guidelines. Analysis by Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]   Virginians Weigh Library Net-Blocking Suit - The constitutionality of Loudoun County's new library Net access rules requiring blocking for all patrons and parental permission for people under 18 is questioned by a citizens group. [Wired News]   Write a Complaint, Get Emailbombed - Solid Oak is under fire from a woman who says the maker of Cybersitter Web filtering software launched an email attack against her after she sent it a critical message. [Wired] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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