A federal court has struck down rules that would have required libraries to block children's access to offensive Web material or lose federal funds, handing a win to librarians and free-speech ...

As part of the recent spending bill, Congress has set a mandate for schools and libraries to install filtering software, but the new law will be challenged in court. The spending bill passed by ...

Manufacturers of Web filtering software do not publish information about which sites they block, nor how they decide which sites to block. The proposed bill would open up the possibility of ...

Many of you have asked us for general guidance on the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision last month in U.S. v. ALA, our challenge to CIPA and the requirement ...

The developer of proxy software designed to defeat Web filters is offering Internet users $10 to install and run his application, as a way to raise its profile. Independent developer Bennett Haselton, ...

Schools and libraries are hurting students by setting up heavy-handed Web filtering software that block access to potentially educational sites. Instead, educators should trust teachers and librarians ...

Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al. In total, my research yielded 6777 distinct web page URLs that were blocked by at least one of the filtering programs ...

Testing the boundaries between free speech and protecting children from obscenity online, a group of public libraries is scheduled to go to court today in Pennsylvania for the beginning of a trial ...

Since 2016, Utah law has mandated that any public school or library applying for state money must provide filtering software on its computers to prevent access to child pornography and other obscene ...