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INTERNET FREE EXPRESSION ALLIANCE | IFEA Mission | Members | News | Resources | The Internet is a powerful and positive forum for free expression. It is the place where any person can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox, as the U.S. Supreme Court recently observed. Internet users, online publishers, library and academic groups and free speech ...

PURCHASE OF BLOCKING SOFTWARE BY PUBLIC LIBRARIES IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL A Briefing Paper by Jonathan D. Wallace, Esq. jw@bway.net (revised November 9, 1997) The following is intended for use by free speech advocates to oppose the installation of blocking software such as Cyberpatrol, Surfwatch, NetNanny or Cybersitter in public libraries. Permitted uses include basing your own correspondence or ...

Sites Blocked by Internet Filtering Programs Edelman Expert Report for Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al. Overview In the course of a pending ACLU challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) (PDF format), I was asked to design and implement systems to identify particular web pages that are blocked by four specific Internet filtering ...

Information about Labeling and Rating Systems Boston's Mayor Menino Demands Public Library Censorship Read the rest of the material here to see why this was both predictable, and an atrocious idea. And it's not just Boston, for example, here's a reference for Who Watches the Watchmen - Cyber Patrol in the Austin Public Library Computers and Academic Freedom labeling references An annotated list ...

Study of Average Error Rates for Censorware Programs Bennett Haselton, bennett@peacefire.org 10/23/2000 Introduction Using zone files from Network Solutions (which list all .com domains in existence), we obtained a list of the first 1, 000 active .com domains on the Internet as of June 14, 2000. We tested this list of 1, 000 domains using five popular blocking programs: Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch, ...