Last November, Ryan, a high-school sophomore, figured out a way to outsmart the Web filters on a school PC in order to visit the off-limits MySpace.com while doing "homework" in the computer lab. A ...

Many students in this situation find a way around their districts’ web filters. They access the internet on their phones instead, or use proxy servers or virtual private networks to essentially access ...

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From the time the World Wide Web took off in the mid-90s, corporations began looking for ways to filter out access to its more lurid displays, but IT managers who use filters today say they’re good ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Internet filters may help protect parents from their fears, and schools from lawsuits, but they're "highly imperfect" tools for protecting children, says Nicholas Burbules. "They ...

Google added a new "Web" filter to show only text-based webpage links. The filter caters to searchers who prefer stripped-down, simplistic search results. It's a throwback to the early days of search ...

The developer of proxy software designed to defeat Web filters is offering Internet users $10 to install and run his application, as a way to raise its profile. Independent developer Bennett Haselton, ...

The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday that it has updated its Web filter with free software in an effort to combat sites that the group claims promote hate. With the ADL HateFilter 2.0, the league ...