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Adult Content Dispute Causes AltaVista To Close Features
News AltaVista is committed to screening children under the age of 13 from accessing adult content on the AltaVista Web site. Web portal AltaVista has abandoned its community features after the Better Business Bureau found the site too loose in...
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
Telcos Bar Children From Adult Content
News Methods used to prevent unrestricted access to adult content will include barring, PIN numbers and subscription-only services. As mobile operators are unable to subject other Internet content to the same restrictions, parents will be able to apply...
[January 19, 2004, 14:20]
Defending Against A Google Asault
News But this adult content publisher has one thing Hefner does not. How did you make the transition from university professor to publisher of adult content? Do you think Google did not act on your requests because you were not the recording industry or...
[March 6, 2006, 11:55]
A Year Ago: Erotic E-commerce Vendors Warn Against Backlash
News But the $1bn (£0.6bn) industry is still looking for legitimacy, as purveyors of adult content meeting here expressed concern about a possible backlash against their businesses. They said American Express is considering cutting off its adult-content...
[October 12, 1999, 7:00]
'Good Citizenship' Comes Between Australians And Their Mobile Porn
News "Good corporate citizenship" is all that stands between Optus and its plans to introduce adult content to its mobile phone service, the SingTel-owned company said late yesterday. Chris Lane, director Optus Mobile Partners, said at the launch of the...
[October 8, 2004, 13:20]
RealNetworks Considers Porn
News Those calculations may be changing, however, thanks in part to some recent experiments that suggest mainstream distributors may be able to dabble in adult content without sparking a major backlash. RealNetworks may now be weighing whether it can...
[August 16, 2002, 8:45]
X-rated: Getting A Tech Job In The Adult Industry
News Searching on JobServe.co.uk under multiple criteria — "adult content", "adult Web site" and "adult entertainment" probably won't get you far. If someone wants to get into the adult industry to watch models they should focus on content, for example...
[November 22, 2005, 11:30]
.XXX Porn Domain May Rise Again
Talkback The idea of a domain strictly for adult content is compelling. From a practical standpoint there is no way to force webhosts to move adult content to a new TLD. The costs, on the other hand, would be borne by thousands of webmaster, content...
[May 23, 2006, 17:43]
US Report: Erotic E-commerce Vendors Warn Against Backlash
News But the $1bn (£0.6bn) industry is still looking for legitimacy, as purveyors of adult content meeting here expressed concern about a possible backlash against their businesses. They said American Express is considering cutting off its adult-content...
[October 12, 1998, 9:54]
Hutchison Confronts 3G Porn Issue
News The company has confirmed that a staff member within its entertainment team was examining at the issue of adult content, but denied that it was only interested in making money out of soft pornography.
[October 22, 2001, 11:46]
Playboy Increases Mobile Exposure
News Under an agreement with Seattle-based Dwango Wireless, Playboy plans to sell adult mobile-phone content in the United States and Canada for the first time early next year. Playboy Enterprises' plan to introduce adult entertainment for mobile phones...
[December 3, 2004, 10:50]
ICANN Derails Latest .xxx Plan
News ICANN late last week voted 9-5 to deny an application from ICM Registry, which for the past several years has sought to be the registry for adult-content websites. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a...
[April 2, 2007, 11:47]
Porn Outsmarts Search Filters
News The shortcomings of porn filters were on display last week when Google launched a test version of a search engine for images with an optional filter for what it terms "inappropriate adult content". The filter removes many adult images, but it can't...
[July 2, 2001, 14:11]
AltaVista Has Overreacted, Say Privacy Experts
News At the same time it has reopened the debate on the level of responsibility that portals and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should accept towards the adult-rated content that appears on their site. Nigel Williams, director of children's charity...
[February 16, 2001, 9:54]
Pakistan To Curb Porn With Free Filtering Software
News The country plans to soon develop content-filtering software to stop its one million Internet users from accessing adult Web sites, Reuters reported. For example, Google has introduced a SafeSearch feature for children to filter out links to adult...
[July 4, 2003, 10:18]
US Report: CDA II Looking Strong
News Under the law, Web site owners could use credit card numbers, so-called "adult IDs" or other reasonably verifiable methods to segregate sexually explicit content from the rest of the Internet. I believe it is our responsibility to act to protect...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
Startup Spotlight: Tots Get Wired With Atkidz.com
News In the past month a host of children's charities have rallied against child-facing Internet chatrooms for the adult-rated subject matter that they contain. The colourful Flash-based site is very attractive to both the adult and younger eye, but...
[November 29, 2000, 11:28]
Photos: From Sony Ericsson To Segways
News Tucked discreetly out of the way on the second floor of Hall 2, the show's Adult Content zone shows that, as with the Internet, the adult industry is always at the forefront of any developments in content delivery.
[February 16, 2006, 14:45]
Freedom Of Speech V The Will To Protect Children
News It is impossible to apply content regulation to the Internet and impossible to distinguish between adult and minors on the Internet," Beeson said. According to Peggy Peterson, head of communications at the Congressional District of Ohio -- where...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
Yahoo! Cracks Down On Porn Chatrooms
News 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 objectionable content in the UK.
[May 3, 2001, 13:27]
