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Australian site told to remove racial content
News In an Australian first, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has ordered a South Australian publication to remove racially offensive material from its Web site. Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy found that the Adelaide Institute had...
[October 10, 2000, 9:14]
Lord Chancellor shuts down Web site
News Civil liberties advocates were furious Thursday following the closure of a Web site for carrying allegedly "offensive" material. In that case Justice Morland ruled ISPs were liable for offensive material if they had received notice such material...
[November 12, 1999, 17:08]
Ford offers amnesty on Internet porn
News Twenty thousand workers at Ford, including 5,500 at Dagenham, have been told to clean up their computers and remove any offensive, including racist, material they have on their machines. After the deadline, on Friday 15 March, any employee found to...
[March 5, 2002, 13:03]
Australian law claims spam success
News The ACA’s initial focus was on spammers allegedly sending high volumes of offensive unsolicited material including pornography and marketing for products such as herbal Viagra," said Horton. As recently as last week, Spamhaus reported that there...
[July 22, 2004, 11:15]
Aussie ISPs held responsible for content
News The ABA would then issue an interim notice to the ISP hosting that offensive material, ordering that it "prevent publication of, or access to, that content," he said. If ISPs refuse to remove offensive material, they could be fined.
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
Government admits education site 'unsuitable'
News The filtered sites are based on offensive material that national newspapers would not publish," said Tim Clark, Internet business development manager at RM. However, this standard is not acceptable for an educationwal Web site targeted at children...
[October 23, 2000, 16:57]
Workers using email for sex talk
News More men than women report receiving offensive material through work email at work, whether pornographic images or sex-related messages, according to the survey. However, while females are more likely to be staunch supporters of banning such...
[January 24, 2002, 9:59]
Australia censors the Net
News Under the regulations, the Australian Broadcasting Authority will have the power to order ISPs to remove offensive or illegal material from their servers. The ABA will also liase with the industry over the development of industry codes of practice...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
Teh Fluffy Kittez - 1 Forces Of Authoritarian Darkness - 0
Blog I don't believe the official reason given by the Pakistani authorities for banning YouTube - that it contained material offensive to Islam. YouTube has many, many offensive things on it - and the item that was the cause célèbre in this case was...
[March 2, 2008, 20:31]
Most Internet abuse dismissals related to porn
News There have been many instances of employees being sacked for accessing or distributing porn, ranging from mobile phone network operator Orange to stockbrokers Merrill Lynch who sacked 15 members of its London staff for sending offensive material...
[July 9, 2002, 16:50]
Australia cracks down on offensive content
News The new offence will complement this scheme by introducing criminal penalties for placing material on the Internet that would be regarded by reasonable persons as being, in all the circumstances, offensive," the statement said.
[August 21, 2003, 10:40]
Web of Porn: Adult pornography - the debate rages
News For Beyer the bottom line lies with service providers who, he says, should not allow offensive material to be published on the Net. But Beyer's broad definition of offensive material -- any image which depicts human sexual activity, acts of force...
[March 9, 1999, 12:47]
Cable company sacks six for email "misuse"
News The company will not tolerate the use of company communications tools to carry or download any defamatory, discriminatory, offensive or obscene material. Last year the New York Times let 23 staff members go for sending "offensive" emails around the...
[November 29, 2000, 15:13]
Ford may find that porn sticks around
News On 4 March, Ford issued a two-week amnesty to its 20,000 UK workers to remove any offensive, including racist, material either downloaded from the Internet or received via email from their machines. Many companies are unaware they have a problem...
[March 7, 2002, 14:15]
School District Complies With Federal Mandates by Deploying Security at the Internet Gateway
White Papers The school districts needed to comply with the Federal Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) that mandates to protect the students from inappropriate and offensive material. Nationwide, school districts face a common dilemma - how to protect...
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Case Study: Trussville City Schools
White Papers An acceptable policy must include technology protection measures to block or filter access to offensive material and to monitor online activities of minors. In July 2005, Trussville City Schools in Trussville, Ala.officially seceded from the...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Essential Steps to E-mail Security: A Clearswift Best-Practice Guide
White Papers By following some basic principles, there's no reason one can't let legitimate business e-mail move into, out of and within enterprise while stopping the things that cause damage: viruses, spam, spyware, trojans, phishing, Denial of Service...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
VideoReDo TVSuite
Downloads This means you can remove offensive material (often commercials) by editing video, quickly author video, and burn DVD's easily and quickly! VideoReDo TVSuite delivers a simple and fast way to edit and create customized DVD's of your...
[February 12, 2008, 7:00]
Merrill Lynch staff sacked over porn, say reports
News City stockbrokers Merrill Lynch has sacked 15 members of its London staff for sending offensive material on its system, say reports. According to the Evening Standard, the offences allegedly included the downloading of pornographic material.
[October 13, 2000, 16:50]
Ten sacked over 'lewd email'
News The offending emails featured a doctored picture of Bart Simpson in a sexual clinch, although a company spokesman says that other emails contained far more offensive material. Though the sackings were condemned as "an absurd over-reaction" by one...
[January 5, 2001, 12:28]
