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News Burst: Government Site Links Kids To Sex And Drugs - Report
News A government Web site designed for schools is allowing millions of children to gain instant access to sexually explicit material and drugs information, according to a report. But the site links to Internet resources some say is inappropriate for...
[October 23, 2000, 14:03]
US Report: Senate Passes CDA II, Filtering Measure
News The Senate passed legislation to ban the open display of sexually explicit materials judged "harmful to minors" on the Internet. At the same time, the upper chamber also gave a nod to a bill that would require schools and libraries that receive...
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
Manchester Police Boss Sacked For Downloading Porn
News One of Britain's largest police forces has sacked a manager for downloading pornography on his computer and sexually harassing female colleagues. The complaint came days after he was accused of putting his hand up a colleague's skirt, and...
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
Judge Calls For Internet Controls On Net Paedophilia
News A British judge has called for greater checks on unlawful Internet content after sentencing an Oxford University scholar to five years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy that he met in a gay Internet chatroom.
[April 6, 2001, 15:07]
Porn Spammers Ignore New Labelling Rule
News Not only did illegal sexually-explicit spam fail to slow down after the regulations took effect on 19 May, but pornographic email measured by one anti-spam company jumped from about 2 million messages in a 40-hour period last week to about 2.5...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
Government Admits Education Site 'unsuitable'
News The government admitted Monday its educational Web site Eduweb contains material that is inappropriate for children, after a report condemned the site for allowing millions of children to gain instant access to sexually explicit material and drugs...
[October 23, 2000, 16:57]
Chatroom Danger: Wonderland Paedophiles Given The Thumbs Up
News WARNING: this article contains strong and sexually explicit language The seven British men held and distributed photographic images of children being sexually and physically abused over the Internet, through an international pornography ring dubbed...
[March 15, 2001, 12:48]
PayPal Bans Payments For Porn On EBay
News The April revision amends a March decision that stopped payment for sexually explicit goods except those listed under eBay's "Mature Audiences". Sales of sexually themed tangible products can be processed until 12 June.
[May 1, 2003, 10:47]
Police Swoop On Internet Paedophiles
News Those detained are suspected of paying for access to US-based servers that allowed them to download images of children being sexually abused. The NCIS said in a statement that this was the first time that they had successfully targeted people...
[May 20, 2002, 16:56]
Blind Man Faces Prosecution For Listening To Child Porn
News Legal experts are scouring the statute books to determine where South African law stands on listening to children being sexually abused. The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Misleading URLs May Become Illegal
News Under the proposal, a last-minute amendment to an unrelated child abduction bill, people who knowingly use an innocent-sounding domain name to drive traffic to a sexually explicit Web site could be fined and imprisoned for two to four years.
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
Microsoft Fires Off Spam Lawsuits
News Sexually explicit materials and publications for sale in stores are required by [US] law to be covered from view with a brown paper wrapper, and it's important that consumers are protected online in the same way," said Nancy Anderson, vice...
[December 2, 2004, 15:00]
Porn Fills Police Educational Web Site
News There is no way of knowing how many children had viewed the sexually explicit material before police discovered the problem, but steps have been taken to alert children, school authorities and anti-drug campaigners to what has happened.
[May 18, 2001, 8:25]
Police Probe 1,800-strong Internet Paedophile Ring
News According to newspaper reports on Sunday the man arrested is a caretaker, and the club shared sexually explicit images of boys as young as 12. s instant messaging service is routinely used by paedophiles to persuade children into sexually explicit...
[June 11, 2001, 10:44]
AOL Faces Hate Speech Issue...maybe
News AOL said the phrase violated the conditions of its "terms of service" (TOS) contract with subscribers that, among other things, prohibits sexually explicit language, as well as hate speech, from being entered on its system.
[November 3, 1999, 14:18]
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. Common sense and 40 years of research in the field of...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
Bush Urges Ban On 'morphed' Porn
News In June, the US House of Representatives voted 413 to 8 for a bill that would outlaw computer-generated sexually explicit images of anyone under 18 years old, even if no actual minor was involved. The courts have repeatedly turned back attempts to...
[October 24, 2002, 8:23]
Deceptive URLs And 'virtual' Porn Banned
News These Web sites use legitimate-sounding domain names to lure children to sites with sexually explicit material. Pence's amendment said that anyone who uses a misleading domain name to try to lure people into visiting an obscene Web site faces up to...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
Australian Controversy Over Government Web Censorship
News SurfWatch spiders the Web -- much like a search engine -- carrying out text-based analysis, often for sexually explicit words. Core categories include sexually explicit, hate speech, drugs and alcohol, violence and weapons.
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Kazaa In Child Porn Investigation
News Congress' first two attempts to restrict sexually explicit Web sites have been rejected by courts, and last week the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a law tying filtering software with federal grants to libraries.
[March 13, 2003, 10:01]
