A popular online safe-search filter is ending its practice of blocking links to mainstream gay and lesbian advocacy groups for users hoping to avoid obscene sites.

Websense's products are meant to block malicious Web sites, but on Tuesday and Wednesday the Web filters also blocked Yahoo.com. The blockade is the result of an erroneous update sent out to ...

The New Nintendo 3DS web browser has a mandatory pay-wall that automatically blocks adult websites; it can only be disabled by paying a nominal fee of 30 Yen (about 28 cents in the US) with a ...

UK’s web filtering seems to be blocking common sense Connoisseurs of a good political bust-up may have noticed a subtle change in tempo to the online filtering debate over the Christmas period.

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- A popular online safe-search filter is ending its practice of blocking links to mainstream gay and lesbian advocacy groups for users hoping to avoid obscene sites. For several ...

The DNS filtering research provides a data-driven look at the website categories employers most commonly restrict access to, aiming to create a secure and productive workplace environment.

The Department of Communications has argued that forcing ISPs to block certain websites under Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act is not a form of internet filtering.

The hidden "Supervision" page in Android 16 makes parental controls like web content filters more accessible. Here's a first look.

Filtering and blocking was "particularly erratic" when lots of China's web users were online, said the researchers. Despite the failures of the blocking system, the researchers said the idea that web ...