From the Center for Democracy and Technology: “A Pennsylvania federal court today struck down a state Internet censorship law as a violation of the First Amendment. CDT had challenged the law because it had resulted in the blocking of more than a million innocent web sites.” Memorandum Decision in Pennsylvania Internet Blocking Law Case (11… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Censorship
Net Filtering in China
OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 005 – Probing Chinese search engine filtering, August 19, 2004. Continue Reading
Maine Libraries to Receive State Assistance To Supplement CIPA Loses
“The State of Maine has budgeted for providing compensatory funds to public libraries that will lose federal funds if they decide not to install filters as required by the Children’s Internet Protection Act.” [Link] Continue Reading
Report on U.S. Sponsored Net Filtering Program
“Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau’s (IBB) Anonymizer Service in Iran,” April 28, 2004. [Link] See also this related CNet article by Declan McCullagh. Continue Reading
University Consortium Sponsors Global Project on Web Filtering and Surveillance
“The OpenNet Initiative is a University-based policy research project documenting filtering and surveillance practices worldwide. Our aim is to excavate, expose and analyze these practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion to uncover the potential pitfalls of present policies to explore the possibility of unintended and unexpected consequences and thus to help inform better public… Continue Reading
File Sharing Proposed in Effort to Bypass Censorship of News
The BBC News reported that access to news on issues relevant to readers on a global scale can be significantly expanded, according to Cambridge University Professor Ross Anderson, through the use “of peer-to-peer networks…to make censorship difficult, if not impossible…” Continue Reading
HHS OIG To Review Claim Medicare Cost Data Withheld From Public
HHS Secretary Thompson Calls for Investigation Into Whether Medicare Actuary Was Pressured To Withhold Estimates. From the New York Times: Inquiry Ordered on Medicare Official’s Charge Mysterious Fax Adds to Intrigue Over the Medicare Bill’s Cost The Actuary and the Actor: “Actors were hired by the Department of Health and Human Services to pose as… Continue Reading
Supreme Ct. Heard Oral Arguments Today on Child Online Protection Act
This Washington Post (reg. req’d) article reviews today’s arguments in Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 03-218. Child Online Protection Act (original statute); amended statute. Brief for Petitioner Brief for Respondents Continue Reading
HHS Will Correct and Re-Issue Health Care Report
From the Sunday New York Times, this report states: “The Bush administration says it improperly altered a report (from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) documenting large racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but it will soon publish the full, unexpurgated document. “There was a mistake made,” Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary… Continue Reading
TSA Sought Censorship of Files from Commercial Database
The link to this article from CQ’s Homeland Security subscriber publication, titled TSA Asks Media to Expunge Public Testimony on Airport Security Problems comes via Secrecy News. It states that TSA requested the removal of two pages of unclassified hearing testimony, presented last November, from the online archives of Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH), a… Continue Reading
New PA Website Blocking Law Challenged
From the Center on Democracy and Technology: “On Tuesday, January 6, CDT and the ACLU begin presenting evidence in federal court in Philadelphia in their challenge to a Pennsylvania law that has resulted in the blocking of hundreds of thousands of legitimate websites. The hearing is expected to run for several days. Extensive briefs filed… Continue Reading
Library Net Filtering Not Implemented Comprehensively
“A new Florida State University Institute on Information study has found that only about half of the libraries surveyed have filters on even one computer.” [Link] Continue Reading
