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Adult content dispute causes AltaVista to close features
News It further criticised AltaVista for permitting certain adult "club" communities to allow anyone -- registered or not -- to access pornographic images. AltaVista is committed to screening children under the age of 13 from accessing adult content on...
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
A Year Ago: Erotic e-commerce vendors warn against backlash
News The Communications Decency Act II -- which would prevent the transmittal of any content deemed pornographic -- is wending its way through Congress. Relevant Knowledge, which measures visits to online sites, estimates that 43 percent of all Internet...
[October 12, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Erotic e-commerce vendors warn against backlash
News The Communications Decency Act II -- which would prevent the transmittal of any content deemed pornographic --is wending its way through Congress. Relevant Knowledge, which measures visits to online sites, estimates that 43 percent of all Internet...
[October 12, 1998, 9:54]
RealNetworks considers porn
News In April 2001 Yahoo pulled all pornographic ads, auction items and merchandise from its site after a series of complaints from customers, though it did so reluctantly, claiming it had received "little negative user-feedback regarding adult products.
[August 16, 2002, 8:45]
Porn outsmarts search filters
News Even with the filter turned on, Google is serving a healthy dose of pornographic images, often for keywords with primarily nonsexual meanings. Google is hardly alone in the uphill battle to filter pornographic and other sensitive images.
[July 2, 2001, 14:11]
Pakistan to curb porn with free filtering software
News According to Pakistan's telecommunications officials, over 60 percent of the online population, mostly youngsters, currently visit pornographic sites. The report said PTCL had blocked more than 1,800 pornographic sites earlier this year to curb...
[July 4, 2003, 10:18]
Snitch
Downloads Snitch is also able to scan compressed files, check text-based files for offensive words in their content or filename, identify files with improper file extensions (ie.movies / images that have been hidden by renaming to be '.tmp' etc...
[July 9, 2003, 5:27]
Porn spammers sneak images into Outlook
News Spammers who send pornographic pictures in the hope of enticing the recipient to signing up to an adult Web site have discovered a way to bypass Outlook 2003's security features, which are designed to stop potentially offensive content being...
[June 21, 2004, 16:00]
British women give online porn the thumbs up
News The NetValue study confirms that Britons feel comfortable about accessing the profitable areas of pornographic Web sites, which require them to enter their credit card details. Pornographic sites are also popular among the earliest adopters of the...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Hutchison confronts 3G porn issue
News While the pornographic industry will see 3G phone users as an obvious target for their services, Hutchison is also concerned about the possibility that its customers could access illegal material through its service.
[October 22, 2001, 11:46]
Baba worm pretends to clean up PCs
News Antivirus companies have found a mass-mailing worm that tries to spread by fooling users into believing that they have pornographic content on their PCs. Either way, many people want to ensure that their PC contains no evidence of pornographic...
[January 20, 2005, 11:15]
Yahoo! cracks down on porn chatrooms
News US took the decision to stop selling pornographic DVDs and videos on Yahoo! The UK hasn't introduced any keyword bar to the adult sections of its site, but this is not the end of the matter, and we are looking at new technologies to reduce any...
[May 3, 2001, 13:27]
Freedom of speech v the will to protect children
News While admitting Congress should try again to somehow curb children's access to pornographic Web sites, Reed wrote that: "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
News Earlier this month, it was reported that a man convicted of murdering a special needs teacher by strangulation has been a regular visitor to pornographic Web sites that included images of necrophilia.
[February 24, 2004, 14:30]
Google Base became porn emporium
News Google Base allows adult content but should filter most of it if visitors use the company's SafeSearch feature, which blocks pornographic material from appearing in search results. With the filter turned off, the amount of adult content on Google...
[November 24, 2005, 8:20]
.XXX porn domain may rise again
Talkback Pretty much the only entity who would see a benefit from the creation of a TLD is the registrar who is allowed to manage the namespace and rake in millions of dollars as nations worldwise rushed to corral whatever they deemed "pornographic.
[May 23, 2006, 17:43]
US mulls compulsory tag on 'adult spam'
News The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed a mandatory tag for commercial email that contains pornographic material -- a stipulation of the new federal anti-spam law enacted this month. The FTC, which is charged with enforcing the Can-Spam...
[January 29, 2004, 15:05]
Mobile adult sites face hacking threats
News Providing gambling and pornographic content for mobile phones is a sensitive issue," the report states. For example, US regulators may force any mobile phone with the capability to access adult material to be equipped with technology that allows...
[October 24, 2005, 16:55]
Porn fills police educational Web site
News A Scottish police force has had to withdraw its promotion of a drug education Web site after it was found to contain hundreds of pornographic images. A Russian company has now gained control of the domain name and mapped it to a site containing...
[May 18, 2001, 8:25]
Report criticises Google's porn filters
News Some of the thousands of non-pornographic sites without robots.txt files that are filtered include offerings from the Vermont Republican Party, the Stonewall Democrats of Austin, a UK government site on vocational training and the Pittsburgh...
[April 11, 2003, 7:56]
