Dale Alexander, the IT director for Albuquerque, N.M., public schools, was not exactly a fan of filtering software for blocking pornography and other Web sites deemed inappropriate for children. But ...

Does the decision by the Supreme Court require public libraries to install these filters? Is this decision a blow to the First Amendment since the filters tend to ...

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A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters. The blocking technology, intended to keep smut from ...

$2,995, the city will pay $1,440 annually. Unlike its competitors, Bess filters Web sites in foreign languages and redirects users to an education-oriented search engine. City officials could not say ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in January against Salem, Missouri and the town’s Library Board in federal court, claiming the library unconstitutionally blocked access to Web ...

“Mrs. B, the World War II website you assigned us to visit is blocked.” “Mr. P. You know that small local business you wanted us to read about last night? Their website was restricted.” “Mr. K, this ...

The disclosure of the words that are officially taboo on China’s Internet by the China Digital News was already funny enough. China chat-giant Tencent discovered that the filtering software it has to ...

People are talking about internet content filtering, especially since the ACLU won its case against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which tried to censor all speech about sex from the internet ...

The Children’s Internet Protection Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, requires both schools and public libraries receiving federal technology funding to equip their computers with the ...