censorware

Software that either automatically, or by user request, blocks websites deemed inappropriate from being retrieved. See Internet filtering, parental control software and wares.

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Twenty years later, content-control software (known by certain opposition as "nannyware") still works to protect our nation's children from obscene images and limits access to games, online shopping, social networking, and streaming content.

Internet content filtering: one page at a time

Similarly, Freedom House reported recently that Iran's "automated filtering" of the Internet is "enabled by SmartFilter, a commercial content-control software system developed by a U.S.-based firm." The company contends that the software is pirated, but that is irrelevant to the larger point, which is that there is nothing inherently liberating about state-of-the-art information technology.

When the revolution isn't broadcast

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