A proposed Internet filter dubbed the “Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, ...

The Internet filters used in most schools allow educators to carefully screen Web sites by keyword or category to ensure that students can’t access obscene images, get diverted by online games, hack ...

Students in Clark County, Nev., can’t see whatever they want online, but they have some say in the matter. Those who want to view a Web site blocked by the district’s Internet filter can initiate a ...

Upon the initiative of the Alternative Communication Association, more than a hundred academics launched a signature campaign against applying the disputed internet filtering system at universities.

The Association for Alternative Information criticised the central internet filter to be enforced on 22 August. The association found the corresponding recommendations issued by the Internet Committee ...

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 ...

BERLIN--As European lawmakers debate how to keep access to the Internet free and equal--so-called network neutrality--they are inundated, not unsurprisingly, by lobbyists. But the corporate envoys ...

The authors are collecting data on the methods, scope, and depth of selective barriers to Internet access through Chinese networks. Tests from May 2002 through November 2002 indicate at least four ...

The Net is increasingly getting broken into cantons. The digital chain connecting one's laptop to a Web site thousands of miles away can be traversed by a single click--so long as no link within the ...

Blocking content coming into and going out to the Internet. Accomplished by firewall software residing in a stand-alone device, router or user's machine or in a filtering program in each user's ...

The Australian Government has scrapped controversial plans surrounding the implementation of a mandatory internet filter, first suggested by the Labor party five years ago. Communications Minister ...

All new computers sold in China after July 1 must contain new software called that filters out a list of Web sites banned by the government. Jonathan Zittrain, professor of law at Harvard Law School ...