Although open-source advocates generally consider arbitrary, proprietary censorship to be a bad thing--its alternative being one of the reasons behind the Open Source Movement--controlling what comes ...

Guardians of the Web Part of the district’s ability to do that, Klein says, is its use of an open-source filtering program called Dan’s Guardian .

Plus, there is also a Web content filtering portal linked to the DansGuardian home page (see Resources) and an IRC chat location. Overall, DansGuardian and Tinyproxy are frontrunners in the Open ...

Web filtering is just another example of these huge differences. Here’s the underlying issue: the Chinese government’s definition of “Web threat” is different from yours and mine.