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Sites in this category generally contains opinions that filtering software is inappropriate for use in homes, libraries, workplaces, or schools.

Resources in This Category

• Censorware: A Post-CDA Solution?

  http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorware/
  General information, resources, links, and news coverage of filtering and blocking software from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

• Cyber Petrol

  http://cyberpetrol.978.org/
  Form to find out in an URL is in the Cyber Patrol blacklist. Mirrors of The Breaking of Cyber Patrol 4 and How to Disable Cyber Patrol.

• Cybersitter

  http://www.paganlibrary.com/witch_hunting/cybersitter.php
  Gunnar Weygold's story of how Solid Oak Software tried to shut his account down for using their online Cybersitter submission form.

• Cybersitter Bans All Wiccan/Pagan Websites

  http://trifold.tripod.com/NOTICE.html
  Cybersitter blocks some pagan sites completely. Other sites that contain words like "pagan," "Wicca," or "witch" are either censored or blocked. The software also prevents the use of pagan-related words in search engines.

• Cybersitter Petition Page

  http://www.angelfire.com/ca/CyberSitterPetition/
  A petition to boycott Solid Oak Software Inc.'s Cybersitter program. Currently this program is designed to block out Wiccan, Pagan, and Satanist websites.

• Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide

  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/
  Seeks to document and analyze a large number of Web pages blocked by various types of filtering regimes.

• Filters and Filtering

  http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Intellectual_Freedom_Issues&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=29043
  American Library Association's policies, statements, and links regarding filtering in libraries.

• Internet Free Expression Alliance

  http://www.ifea.net/
  Organization which advocates against content filtering as inconsistent with free speech.

• Peacefire

  http://www.peacefire.org/
  Anti-censorware articles, essays, and investigative reports. Includes instructions and programs to disable content blocking software.

• Seth Finkelstein's Anticensorware Investigations

  http://sethf.com/anticensorware/
  Investigations of censorware ("filtering") programs by the 2001 EFF Pioneer Award winner who first decrypted censorware blacklists and was the chief programmer for Censorware Project.

• Seth Finkelstein's Censorware Essays

  http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/essays/
  Several essays and reports on filtering software from one of the founders of the Censorware Project.

• Sites Blocked by Internet Filtering Programs

  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/mul-v-us
  Expert testimony of Benjamin Edelman in an ACLU challenge to the use of filtering software in public libraries. Documents 6000+ examples of erroneous overblocking.

• The Censorware Page

  http://www.spectacle.org/cs/index.html
  News and information about filtering software from the Ethical Spectacle.

• The Story of CPHack

  http://cphack.robinlionheart.com/
  Background on lawsuit by Mattel and Microsystems to ban program to decrypt Cyber Patrol 4 blacklist, including mirror and links to over 50 news articles.

 

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