Con Content Filtering Internet Computers Science and Technology

Con

Sites in this category generally contains opinions that filtering software is inapproriate for use in homes, libraries, workplaces, or schools.

• - Expert testimony of Benjamin Edelman in an ACLU challenge to the use of filtering software in public libraries. Documents 6000+ examples of erroneous overblocking.
  
• - Background on lawsuit by Mattel and Microsystems to ban program to decrypt Cyber Patrol 4 blacklist, including mirror and links to over 50 news articles.
  
• - Cybersitter blocks some pagan sites completely. Other sites that contain words like "pagan," "Wicca," or "witch" are either censored or blocked. The software also prevents the use of pagan-related words in search engines.
  
• - In late 2000 OII.org found that it was being blocked by certain filtering software. A three month investigation revealed facts that led the author to believe that filters are far less effective than filtering companies would lead the public to belie
  
• - Questioning the accuracy of AltaVista's "Family Filter".
  
• - Several essays and reports on filtering software from one of the founders of the Censorware Project.
  
• - A petition to boycott Solid Oak Software Inc.'s Cybersitter program. Currently this program is designed to block out Wiccan, Pagan, and Satanist websites.
  
• - Gunnar Weygold's story of how Solid Oak Software tried to shut his account down for using their online Cybersitter submission form.
  
• - American Library Association's policies, statements, and links regarding filtering in libraries.
  
• - For sites that have been blocked by censorware programs just for having a different opinion than the creators of the programs.
  
• - Briefly gives results of a contest held to illustrate problems with censorware.
  
• - An essay by a high school student about why internet filtering products are not effective for blocking pornography on the internet.
  
• - A report by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) on the effects of internet filtering on the Gay and Lesbian community.
  
• - News and information about filtering software from the Ethical Spectacle.
  
• - Investigations of censorware ("filtering") programs by the 2001 EFF Pioneer Award winner who first decrypted censorware blacklists and was the chief programmer for Censorware Project.
  
• - One of the authors answers frequently asked questions about the "The Breaking of Cyber Patrol" essay, the resulting court cases, and related topics.
  
• - General information, resources, links, and news coverage of filtering and blocking software from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
  
• - Results of testing Cybersitter on various sites about non-Christian religion.
  
• - A report which reviews the relationships of eight censorware companies vis-a-vis conservative religious organizations.
  
• - Seeks to document and analyze a large number of Web pages blocked by various types of filtering regimes.
  
• - Form to find out in an URL is in the Cyber Patrol blacklist. Mirrors of The Breaking of Cyber Patrol 4 and How to Disable Cyber Patrol.
  
• - An ACLU White Paper with their position on blocking software, rating systems, and legislation restricting free speech.
  
• - Discussion of the politics of material blocked by filtering software including information on sites blocked due to their opinions of the products themselves.
  
• - Organization which advocates against content filtering as inconsistent with free speech.
  
  

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