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RSS censor in newsMicrosoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
News Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet. [02 Feb 2004]
Pakistan to give away anti-porn software
News Authorities in Pakistan are banking on self-censorship to weed out internet pornography in the conservative Muslim nation. The country plans to soon develop content-filtering software to stop its one million internet users from accessing adult... [04 Jul 2003]
Vint Cerf: People power must 'censor' the web
News Internet guru Vint Cerf has called on citizens to accept responsibility for determining the accuracy and truth of information published online. In his foreword to the latest Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, The... [23 Jun 2003]
Thus says: 'We'll block child porn'
News We do not want to act as a judge or a censor, but for too long ISPs have hidden behind a thin shroud that as the issue of responsibility has not been resolved the industry should do nothing. This is the first such public action by a British ISP. [20 Feb 2001]
Home cinema goes online and Windows 2000 gets a push in 2001
News Despite a knee-jerk reaction that seemed as misinformed as it was well-intended both the Guardian and the Telegraph report that the government intends to continue with plans to censor the content ISPs can host. [23 Jan 2001]
Demon pledges to contest Godfrey lawsuit
News A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) said the ruling "opens up the floodgates for [ISPs] to be sued for unlawful removal of content and puts them in the unwanted position of being a censor". [15 Jun 1999]
Demon suit heads for the high court
News Civil liberties organisation Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), believes the decision will have a profound effect on 'cyber-speech' and that UK ISPs will be forced to monitor and censor third party content going through their servers. [26 Mar 1999]
EC sets out ecommerce terms
News The directive gives national governments the power to censor Web sites based in other countries - provided that the EC and the host country are notified in advance. The EC released a draft directive on electronic commerce yesterday which aims to... [18 Nov 1998]
Singapore labels Web sites to protect citizens
News Backing away from the more draconian curbs placed on the Internet in China and Vietnam - where governments censor Net content using gateways - Niac recommended that local Internet service providers regulate themselves using the internationally... [28 Sep 1998]
