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- noun computing Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage. Content filtering software, or a component in an operating system or console used to disable reception of media on the basis of content believed to be objectionable.
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It's not a wiki (yet), but "defeat censorware" is a living document, so expect many updates over time.
Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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Their overbroad, wildly inaccurate censorware is used by libraries in Eastern Washington to keep patrons from seeing naughty things -- including vast quantities of lawful material.
Boing Boing: November 12, 2006 - November 18, 2006 Archives 2006
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The initiative also found that Myanmar, arguably the most repressive regime in the world, uses censorware from the American company Fortinet.
- Boing Boing 2006
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Let's hope that TOM Online and Skype do the right thing, which is: 1) Inform users that censorware is being downloaded onto their computers along with the Skype-branded chat client, and inform users exactly which Chinese law requires that this must happen.
Boing Boing 2006
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Absence of federal regulation has allowed so-called censorware of at least four California companies to end up in the hands of foreign governments shown to block citizens 'access to political, religious, and other websites.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: When US-made 'censorware' ends up in iron fists 2007
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: When US-made 'censorware' ends up in iron fists 2007
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It seems the funding is to go to hotlines (like the Internet Watch Foundation presumably), filter software (called censorware by critics), self regulation and awareness raising.
B2fxxx 2004
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It seems the funding is to go to hotlines (like the Internet Watch Foundation presumably), filter software (called censorware by critics), self regulation and awareness raising.
Archive 2004-12-05 2004
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Archive 2006-11-01 Bill Kerr 2006
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io9: 'The researchers also found that web filtering programs - often dubbed "censorware" - seemed to be an ineffective way of preventing children from seeing upsetting content online.'
January 17, 2009