Earlier this year, I mentioned an outstanding book that John Palfrey of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School co-edited entitled Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. It’s an excellent resource for anyone studying the methods governments are (unfortunately) using to stifle online expression across the globe. [...]
Over at Ars, Ben Kuchera has a review of Ask.com’s redesign of its web portal for kids, AskKids.com. It’s a great new addition to the growing list of safe seach tools and web portals geared toward younger surfers. I’m also a big fan of KidZui, the new browser for kids that provides access to over [...]
PFF has just releasing an updated edition of my booklet on “Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools & Methods.” The new version, Version 3.0, includes two new appendixes and updates to each section to reflect new parental control tools and programs developed in the last nine months. The updated report is [...]
Now that I have completed my 10-part series of essays to coincide with “National Internet Safety Month,” I thought I’d list them all in one place. All the information in this series of essays was condensed from my new Progress & Freedom Foundation special report, “Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools [...]