Tumblr this morning is rolling out a significant update to its content filtering system with the launch of a new “Safe Mode” for browsing content on its site. While the company already offered the ...

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Cold Turkey Blocker is free software that you can install on your system for web filtering. You can use it to block websites and applications installed on your ...

A Chinese lawyer has demanded a public hearing to reconsider a government demand that all new personal computers carry Internet filtering software, adding to uproar over a plan critics say is ...

The Australian government plans to spend about $86 million to provide all the country's families with free Internet pornography-blocking software. Helen Coonan, the minister for Communications, ...

How It Works Pornography-filtering software works in different ways. Many of the apps used do not actually “filter” or proactively identify explicit sexual images or content – instead, they rely on ...

If you're the sort of person who reads Ars Technica regularly, there's a good chance that at some point in the past few months, someone has forwarded you a link to Corey Vidal's YouTube a capella ...

China’s authoritarian government has backed away from an order to load Internet-filtering software on every new computer after a major outcry by citizens used to the relative freedom of online life.

If you've been mistreated or harassed based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status, the ACLU wants to hear about it. Report LGBT/HIV Discrimination » Many public schools use web ...

SurfControl, which produces Web and e-mail filters, said that it has been granted a U.S. patent for software that allows companies to block Web sites, despite the ire of online activists against such ...

Various groups, mostly affiliated with religious organizations, distribute software that allegedly blocks out pornography and explicit sexual content. The idea is a good one – for those people who don ...