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	Censorware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Censorware is a term used to describe content filtering software by its opponents.
		Censorware is often proposed as a solution to the problem of hate speech on the Internet.
		Opponents of censorware point out that these tools not only block other content in addition to hate speech, either unintentionally, or as part of the political agenda of the manufacturers of the content filtering software, but also fail to block all the hate speech.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Censorware (252 words)

	Censorware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Censorware determines what content will be available on a particular machine or network; the motive is often to protect children.
		Censorware has been cited as one of the reasons Beaver college had to change the name to Arcadia, since censorware had been blocking acces to the college web site.
		Censorware such as SonicWALL is used in many public libraries in the United States to block content classed as objectionable because of pornography or advocacy of violence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Censorware#Use_in_Public_Libraries (874 words)

	Censorware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Censorware is a term for content-filtering software, especially when it is used to filter content delivered over the Web.
		In addition, some argue that using censorware may violate sections 13 and 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
		Some censorware companies responded by claiming that their filtering criteria were backed by intensive manual checking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Censorware (874 words)

	internet freedom: analysis - Censorware: one for the kids? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Censorware is software that regulates internet access according to a no-go list, typically compiled by the manufacturer, either by blocking material that has been deemed unsuitable, or by allowing access only to authorised material and blocking everything else.
		By refusing to publish, censorware manufacturers are actively engaged in minimising the use of any material they object to, and not only by their own users.
		What censorware demonstrates is that a "child-centred" world reduces us all to the status of children.
	www.netfreedom.org /articles/censorware.asp (1363 words)

	Seth Finkelstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seth Finkelstein, computer programmer and activist, was one of the founders of the Censorware Project (CWP), and worked to raise public awareness of the dangers he perceived as being posed by popular content blocking software (censorware) to unhampered communication.
		He was the unnamed inside source for the CWP, providing the information for a number of breaking news articles from 1996 to 2000 about censorware lists and practices, notably "Censor's Sensibility", published in Time in August, 1997 [3].
		In 2001 he was one of the recipients of the EFF Pioneer Award for his contributions "to decrypt and expose to public scrutiny the secret contents of the most popular censorware fllists".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seth_Finkelstein (287 words)

	EFF NRC Censorware Paper #1 (Mar. 6, 2001, revd. Apr. 13, 2001)
		Many have argued that censorware is caught on the horns of a dilemma: if it blocks too little, it's ineffective and therefore unconstitutional; if it's effective, it blocks too much and again is unconstitutional.
		Censorware isn't a "filter"; it is software designed and optimized for use by an authority to prevent another person from sending or receiving information.
		Censorware proponents have argued that technology can be improved, but we have shown that this is highly unlikely.
	www.eff.org /Censorship/Censorware/20010306_eff_nrc_paper1.html (6514 words)

	The Censorware Project \| What Is Censorware? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First, censorware is designed for one person to use on "another person." You may well have email software that is set up to prevent you from seeing incoming mail from people you find obnoxious.
		Censorware typically works by blocking you from receiving information -- or by preventing you from seeing it once it's received, which has the same effect.
		We at the Censorware Project believe that this type of software is the greatest single threat to free speech as we know it on the internet over the next decade.
	censorware.net /article.pl?sid=01/02/10/2241204 (315 words)

	Congress' Censorware Boondoggle
		Censorware companies are relatively small businesses; N2H2, Inc. of Seattle, which distributes the Bess product, reported that it had $2.5 million in revenue in first quarter of fiscal 2001, giving it a run rate of only ten million dollars for the year.
		N2H2 is one of only two censorware companies which are publicly traded; others are not required to report their results, but are unlikely to be larger than the censorware companies which have already achieved a public offering.
		While the censorware companies respond to every new revelation by claiming they are cleaning up their act (or simply deny the blocking had ever occurred) the Censorware Project found across three years of evaluations that things never got any better.
	www.serendipity.li /cda/isb0102.htm (2244 words)

	How to disable CYBERsitter, Net Nanny, Cyber Patrol, Surfwatch and other net babysitter programs
		Censorware is a tool-of-choice for overprotective parents and paranoid employers, and is typically fairly easy to disable despite password-protection and other schemes designed to deter cybersabotage.
		Unfortunately the censorware makers have thought of this too, and so the biggest and well-known anonymizers (anonymizer.com, etc.) may be blocked by the program.
		This information is intended for tracing spammers who encode their fraud-page addresses, but has proven successful is bypassing many a stupid censorware filter.
	www.cexx.org /censware.htm (3277 words)

	GrepLaw \| Seth Finkelstein on Censorware, Copyright and Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Started decrypting censorware since it was originally being touted even by free-speech groups, and the rest is history (winning an EFF Pioneer Award, originally being touted even by free-speech groups, and the rest is history (winning an EFF Pioneer Award, a DMCA Exemption).
		When I started doing censorware decryption, civil-liberties organizations were utterly unsupportive of me. Every group, ALA, ACLU, EFF (Fena version, not Steele version), said they would not help me, and in fact were critical of me to varying degrees.
		Originally, censorware was to be used in a legal argument, but that very quickly became a social argument for touting censorware.
	grep.law.harvard.edu /article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234 (6222 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Without actually agreeing with the efforts of censorware authors in any way, I will for the moment concede that parents might wish to provide a more constrained informational environment for their children.
		The censorware companies have demonstrated no willingness to adjust or cease depending upon their spiders.
		The censorware producers have themselves acted in extremely unethical ways in the promotion of (see #1), and defense of their products.
	www.devin.com /peachpit/download/doc/_README (594 words)

	The Censorware Scam
		I realise that censorware is often a necessary evil unless you want to spend all your time chasing after those who choose to ignore the rules.
		For censorware which works in an open and transparent manner, look at Dans Guardian, which I'm pleased to be hosting on my website.
		But beware of censorware manufacturers who claim they use real human beings to decide if pages should be blocked or not.
	squidalyser.sourceforge.net /v1docs/contentfiltering.html (980 words)

	Peachpit -- A Tarpit Utility for Censorware Spiders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Censorware is a (harsh) term for the content-based web filtering mechanisms which attempt to filter out objectionable content, most particularly of a sexual nature or espousing unpopular political views.
		Unfortunately, the censorware manufacturers have, despite all claims to the contrary, relied extensively upon the services of automated spiders to find potentially objectionable material, which they then add, without verification, to block lists.
		Further discussion on censorware, including useful background, can be found at peacefire.org, among other places.
	www.devin.com /peachpit (334 words)

	Define censorware - a Whatis.com definition
		Censorware is a term used pejoratively to describe software that filters out undesirable Web sites or content.
		There are a number of problems with censorware, quite apart from the question of whether or not it infringes upon individual rights to access to information.
		The Censorware Project is devoted to news and discussion about censorware.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci896629,00.html (383 words)

	Censorware
		In the midst of the spirited debate over the use of censorware, however, one consensus among school technology leaders emerges: Schools should consider their goals and options carefully and conduct hands-on evaluations of several competing products before making a judgment about whether -- or how -- to filter Internet access for students.
		Censorware products typically use a combination of several filtering and blocking strategies, and school officials can often choose which of these strategies to enable or disable.
		Client-based censorware is designed to be installed and configured on each computer for which Internet access is to be restricted.
	www.electronic-school.com /0198f1.html (2750 words)

	Why it doesn't matter whether censorware works or not
		In essence, the major argument against censorware itself - as distinct from the companies that create it, and their politics - is that it cannot avoid being over-broad in what it blocks.
		This new censorware aims to tell dirty pictures from clean ones algorithmically, and block the former in order (principally) to protect companies from hostile-workplace sexual harassment litigation.
		Parents who're buying censorware to stop their kids from seeing things that they shouldn't may get pretty much what they want from over-strict machine-compiled nanny-ware (well, except for things like that last URL, which is "Art/Culture" according to SmartFilter...), but the big-money clients don't much care whether the software works or not.
	www.dansdata.com /censorware.htm (2337 words)

	Seth Finkelstein - NTIA censorware comment
		This was submitted to the National Research Council (NRC) as part of their censorware study, and is also available at the URL http://www7.nationalacademies.org/itas/whitepaper_1.html.
		In its rulemaking process, the Library of Congress determined investigating censorware fllists to be one of two specific exemptions granted regarding one part of the DMCA ("circumvention").
		Critical examination of censorware, by some of those both most skeptical, and with the necessary expertise to do extensive analysis, is stifled.
	www.ntia.doc.gov /ntiahome/ntiageneral/cipacomments/comments/sethf/ntia.html (2408 words)

	AGENDA Apr 2001 - Error! Censorware Does Not Compute!
		Generally, censorware policies are expensive, ineffective, and perhaps unenforceable.
		More than 300 high school students petitioned against the censorware, expressing their concern that sites dealing with such subjects as breast cancer, homosexuality and reproductive health would be interdicted by the computerized censor.
		Berla said that a continuing review of any censorware would be imperative and that this could only be meaningful if there was a statistically valid set of data taken for several years before the censorware was imposed.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/agenda/0104/censorware.htm (3435 words)

	Anti-censorware links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Censorware can be defined as programs like CYBERsitter, Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch, NetNanny, and others(a [pro-censorware] list is here) designed to restrict access by "minors" to whatever sites the manufacturer deems "offensive" or "unsuitable".
		Censorware in computers is (roughly) analagous to the new mandatory V-chip, now required in many new Television sets.
		Censorware is now being used in the workplace on mature adults.
	pages.prodigy.net /johnhunter2/censor.htm (1929 words)

	What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)
		Censorware is software designed and optimized for use by an authority to prevent another person from sending or receiving information.
		The Censorware Project was formed by a group of writers, lawyers, and activists in late 1997.
		There was a deep conflict between what Censorware Project could do which would be good for me, as a programmer at risk of being sued, and what would be good for e.g.
	www.spectacle.org /0201/sethf.html (2426 words)

	3rd WWWAVE: Censorware Strikes Again.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Translated into English, schools and public libraries must either install censorware on their computers or lose the federal funding that helps them pay for the computers and Internet connections.
		Censorware blocks a lot of stuff that even conservative Republicans agree isn't offensive.
		With censorware, the decision of what constitutes "offensive" or "harmful to minors" is in the hands of the censorware company, not the parents connected to the school or library installing the software.
	www.3rdwwwave.com /replies/cipa.html (475 words)

	PenUltimate Productions: Censorware: The Impossible Project
		By now censorware has grown and evolved, garnering support through attempts to mandate its use in various libraries, schools, and other public information access ports.
		Some censorware now blocks entire sites instead of just specific words, and like the word lists most of the site lists are kept secret -- although they too can be partially exposed by empirical testing.
		Another essay on censorware, Trying out censorware by Charles Pappas, is located on the ZDNet Website.
	www.worthlink.net /~ysabet/spirit/censorware.html (842 words)

	Operation Clambake: Press release about Scientology CensorWare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of particular concern to ISP's will be the fact that, because of the way that the software censors text at the protocol level, it interferes with the dialog for any transaction containing a forbidden word, and does so in such a way as to cause the TCP/IP connection to fail, apparently inexplicably.
		Significant progress has already been made, with the identification of the files which constitute the censorware, how they interfere with the normal running of the networking protocol stack in Windows, and a first cut at the contents of the ban lists.
		Much work remains to be done: at present, it is not known how the lists are stored in memory and how the software itself uses the lists to block access to the forbidden sites.
	www.xenu.net /archive/events/censorship/press_release1.html (231 words)

	Seattle Press on Line - Censorware
		While often used with worthwhile goals, such as protecting children from viewing porn on the Internet, there are technical issues with the software: It often doesn't work as advertised.
		Moreover, when censorware is used in schools and libraries, there are legal and political issues as well.
		Some censorware software is based on lists of sites that they decide should be blocked; other software uses key words in order to block sites.
	www.seattlepress.com /article-9851.html (855 words)

	In Praise of Censorware
		Second, censorware opponents claim that the software is ineffective and hinders the communications that it is meant to let by.
		Make them do an essay on breast cancer when their computer is censorwared), and doesn't restrict things that should (how do you tell an innocent teenage conversation from a paedophile's attempt to schmooze up someone's daughter?).
		Bitterly, workers can't even use the library during the few hours left to them, as they are diabolically chosen to coincide with the same hours the oligarchs have chosen for them to toil in their factories and plantations.
	www.adequacy.org /public/stories/2001.9.6.17445.64203.html (6479 words)

	Slashdot \| MAPS RBL Is Now Censorware (Updated)
		If you consider this a legitimate solution then censorware is perfectly fine too, since you can always move to an internet connection which doesn't use censorware (using one at home instead of the library, for instance).
		This is also troubling if innocent machines are implicated but much less so and hardly rises to the level of censorware since websites do not typically use email for only a tiny fraction of their content.
		Some censorware is offended by pornography or the Ku Klux Klan and is designed to block that.
	www.cs.uga.edu /~kangli/localCopy/rbl_as_censorware.shtml (11713 words)

	The Censorware Project: Exposing the secrets of censorware since 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Censorware Exemption to DMCA Anti-circumvention Provisions In Effect For Another Three Years (0)
		Australia has rejected mandatory use of censorware in an effort to stop child pornography.
		Interesting quotes from censorware providers (it's better than governmental censorship, doncha know) and some discussion of whether open-source censorware is better than closed fllists.
	censorware.net (347 words)

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