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 ...

In the wake of a federal court's unanimous decision declaring the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) unconstitutional, supporters of the mandatory Internet filtering law have not only appealed ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Public libraries' use of Internet filters to block content does not run afoul of the state constitution, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a 6-3 ruling, the ...

A legal skirmish is shaping up over the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which passed the United States Senate 95-3 last December. Sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), CIPA requires ...

The ACLU on Aug. 15 filed a federal lawsuit against a public school district in Missouri that blocks school computers from access to LGBT supportive organizations. The ACLU charges that the school ...

A mainstay of the Internet is pornography, with millions of web pages devoted to dirty words and lewd pictures. After two failed Congressional attempts to limit Internet porn, President Clinton signed ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. There’s a common complaint among high school students across the ...

Massive criticism on the internet filter system to be enforced on 22 August was voiced in a meeting on the matter at Bilgi University on 25 May. The participants demanded to withdraw the decision. The ...

The Association for Alternative Information criticised the central internet filter to be enforced on 22 August. The association found the corresponding recommendations issued by the Internet Committee ...

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 ...

History may well remember Jeffery Pollock as the candidate who censored himself. He didn't plan to do it. He merely fell prey to the age-old Law of Unintended Consequences. Pollock, a conservative ...