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Media Coverage - Old Coverage
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Software Rams Great Firewall of China
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The news and propaganda wing behind the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government, CNET News.com (April 16, 2003)
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Filtering Software May Block Access to Health Information, Study Finds
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Software meant to protect young people from the seamier side of the Internet may also be blocking them from important health information on issues ranging from diabetes and sexually transmitted diseases to depression and suicide, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study released this afternoon, Washington Post (December 10, 2002)
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Internet Filters Block Health Information, Study Finds
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Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information as part of their "wired generation" birthright are blocked from many useful sites by antipornography filters that federal law requires in school and library computers, a new study has found, New York Times (December 10, 2002)
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Bush Signs Child Net Safety Law
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed into law legislation to create a new kids-safe "dot-kids" domain on the Internet, Associated Press on CNN (December 4, 2002)
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Paying the Price
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The effects of CIPA on high school student newspapers are not difficult to see, according to Will Doherty, media relations director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and executive director of the Online Policy Group, Student Press Law Center Report (December 1, 2002)
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Net Porn Filters Just Don't Work
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As well-intentioned as the filter-the-Net folks might be, the reality is that existing technology can't get the job done, San Francisco Chronicle (November 13, 2002)
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Fighting Net Censorship Abroad
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Washington lawmakers are considering legislation that would allocate $100 million to thwart Internet censorship by authoritarian regimes, Wired News (October 3, 2002)
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Hey Filters, Leave the Kids Alone
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A small group of activists gathered in front of Mission
High School on Wednesday to protest federally mandated Internet filtering in
public schools, Wired News (September 19, 2002)
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Edelman vs. N2H2: Can He Hack It?
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At 10:30 a.m. EST this morning, the ACLU filed suit in the US District Court of Massachusetts on behalf of Berkman Affiliate Ben Edelman, asking for a declaratory judgment that he can legally "hack" the controversial N2H2 filtering program, share (publish) the results of his research, and distribute the tool he uses to do it, Corante Copyfight (July 31, 2002)
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Edelman v. N2H2, Inc. - Requesting Declaratory Judgment
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Ben Eldeman today filed suit in Massachusetts federal court seeking a declaratory judgement to allow him to conduct research into a controversial Internet blocking program from defendant N2H2, Inc., GrepLaw.org (July 25, 2002)
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On Trial: Digital Copyright Law
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law, CNET News.com (July 25, 2002)
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ACLU Files Suit Challenging Technology Copyright Law
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he American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Tuesday challenging a controversial 1998 federal law that forbids the dissemination of information that could be used to bypass copy-protection schemes, Associated Press via SiliconValley.com (July 25, 2002)
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Protecting Kids From Internet Porn
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One of the best ways to protect children from pornography on the Internet may be to teach them to protect themselves, experts said on Thursday, CBS (May 2, 2002)
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Net Filters Fail the Children
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A report casting doubt on the effectiveness of
filtering software has been released on the
first day of a US court case challenging a
federal law requiring libraries to restrict access
to some net content, BBC News (March 26, 2002)
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Library Net-Filtering Study Re-Released on Eve of Trial
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With a federal trial on public libraries' use of controversial Web filters scheduled to start
Monday, the Kaiser Family Foundation today re-released a months-old study's findings,
showing that nearly two-thirds of high school students queried favor use of the filtering
technologies, Newsbytes (March 22, 2002)
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Clean It Up
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If you take a classroom full of kids, several computers, an Internet connection, and a single teacher charged with overseeing it all, you're bound to have a problem, PC Magazine (September 25, 2001)
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Censorship High
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A 17-year-old takes a stand against a school Web-filtering system that screens out Planned Parenthood but not the Christian Coalition, Salon (June 14, 2001)
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Copyright Office Issues Unusual Rule
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The US Copyright Office said that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, permits people in certain circumstances to break through the technological barriers that safeguard lists of blocked Web sites maintained by many types of blocking technology, New York Times (November 3, 2000)
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Programmer Finds Filtering System Too Diligent
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As Congress mulls whether smut-blocking software should be installed in all public
schools and libraries, a computer programmer on Tuesday published a report alleging
that at least one filtering company takes its job too far, CNET News.com (October 24, 2000)
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