Earlier this week, the Chinese government mandated that all PCs sold in the country must include "Green Dam Youth Escort" Internet-filtering software. That mandate is aimed at curbing the availability ...

BEIJING -- 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 ...

Late Monday the China Daily newspaper, in a story on its Website, quoted an unnamed source in China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) saying that the government "will not back ...

In the wake of a federal court's unanimous decision declaring the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) unconstitutional, supporters of the mandatory Internet filtering law have not only appealed ...

Libraries in the Evergreen State may use Internet filters to prohibit access to pornographic Web sites, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling is a setback for groups such as the American ...